Madame Leonarda

ISBN: 978-84-936796-2-0
Big and Small Collection, number 9 / Spanish edition / 1st edition: September 2009 / 23 x 19 cm / 204 pages / bicoloured illustrations / it includes an interview with Artur Heras, by Arthur Kemdeffer / hardcover with cloth spine / printed at Brizzolis, Madrid, Spain

This book, primarily addressed to children, narrates the adventures, inventions and mystifications of a character that is half-hen and half-nun. The original edition was published in Frankfurt in 1976 by the publishing house Insel. This new edition, full of visual suggestions and winks to silent cinema, recovers an important title in the bibliography of the author.

A previous version of this book addressed primarily to children was published in Frankfurt in 1976 by the publishing house Insel. It contained the adventures, inventions, and mystifications of Madame Leonarda, the half-hen and half-nun character created by Artur Heras. Thirty-three years later, this new edition, rich in visual suggestions and winks to silent cinema, recovers an important title in the bibliography of the author, who considers it to be “a childlike limbo, a playground in the midst of self-imposed obligations”.

Artur Heras (Xàtiva, Valencia, 1945), painter, sculptor, and artist, would have most likely made Leonarda’s motto his own, this enthusiastic follower of Da Vinci: “What is truly most important is not to lay eggs, but to fly”.

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