Ariel I Els Cossos

by Sebastià Portell

When asked if he is a man or a woman, Ariel does not know what to answer. They told him that he has a body and that this body could get to love with other bodies, but the experience of Ariel is always another. Ariel and the bodies is the story of a character that exists and loves in a different, dodgy, always provisional and disconcerting way. With echoes of Orlando, the famous treatise on gender by Virginia Woolf, this novel is a tribute to the loves that are not born and to the loves that, once born, live on death rows forever. After The Day That David Bowie died, Sebastià Portell returns...