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»The Patty Diphusa Stories« and Other Writings
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Patty Diphusa y otros Textos
Full Title: Patty Diphusa y otros Textos
Authors: Pedro Almodóvar.
Publisher: Editorial Anagrama, S.A.
Number of Pages / Binding: 230 pages / Paperback
Sprache: Spanisch
Publishing Date: 1998

The adventures of Patty Diphusa, the literary ego of Almodóvar, have been published as a serialized column in the spanish magazine »La Luna«.

The »Other Writings« are selected stories from and about the life in Madrid and and all around; experiments about Dada in Spain; essays about Arts and Culture; as well as about Almodóvar's advancement from an Underground-Writer-Director, who has to scrounge money for his first Commercial Movie from his friends, to an internationally famous Director.

Brilliant and ironic, full of elegant professionality and merciless sincerity. »Patty Diphusa« is more than just a must for cineasts, it is also a funny and fascinating book even for readers who are not yet fans of Almodóvar.

If you want to read real Almodóvar, you have to read him in Spanish. This editon furthermore contains some additional chapters compared to the English Edition.

Contents:
Prólogo...........................................................7
    PATTY DIPHUSA................................................13
  1. Yo, Patty Diphusa............................................15
  2. La realidad imita al Porno...................................21
  3. Disputa conyugal en el wáter de una discoteca................28
  4. Un kilo de marisco...........................................35
  5. El lenguaje es una convención o El novio amnéstico de Ana Conda........................................................42
  6. Esta vez no echo polvo.......................................49
  7. La D. G. S. me amuerma.......................................55
  8. La chica que parecía a Spencer Tracy.........................61
  9. Estoy aquí de nuevo..........................................68
  10. Un episodio burgués..........................................75
  11. Patty Mito...................................................84
  12. Yo, Patty, intento conocerme a mí misma a través de mi autor.88
  13. El autobús desbocado.........................................93
  14. Bi..........................................................100
  15. Botines de punta chata......................................109
  16. Yo y mi clon en una noche llena de incertidumbre............116
    RELLENO.....................................................125
  • Sin un amor la vida no se llama vida........................127
  • Escarlata O'Hara, una manchega perfecta.....................130
  • Venir a Madrid..............................................133
  • Modas y costumbres de los noventa...........................138
  • Autoentrevista 1984.........................................143
  • Un buen comienzo............................................152
  • El nacimiento del Dadá (1978)...............................160
  • Escroto sobre el viento.....................................164
  • La Promoción................................................168
  • El mapa.....................................................173
  • Ecos y esquinas.............................................179
    CONSEJOS PARA LLEGAR A SER UN CINEASTA DE FAMA INTERNACIONAL.189
  1. The Vocación................................................191
  2. La ciudad...................................................196
  3. ¡No hay derecho!............................................141
  4. Soledad en la cumbre........................................149
Fuentes.........................................................219


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