![]() ![]() Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) was among other things, an essayist and chronicler of Chile and the dictatorship, and as a gay man showed the queer perspective of the country and the political turmoil that was severely underrepresented. My Tender Matador ( Tiengo Miedo, Torero) follows the Queen of the Corners, not otherwise named, a gay man making her 1 living in the lower end of the capital city Santiago, when she falls in love with one of the young men of the Patriotic Front and becomes entangled in political schemes she can’t ignore… This is the point in history in which essayist, visual artist and activist Pedro Lemebel places his first novel, and his first work translated into English to international renown. A pivotal moment in Chile’s history: an assassination attempt by the young men of the revolutionary Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez) on Augusto Pinochet, the military dictator ruling Chile. ![]()
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