A COLLECTION by Michael Swanwick
with illustrations by Francisco José de Goya Lucientes
CATEGORY Satirical / Speculative Fiction
PUBLICATION DATE February 2024
PAGES 166

EDITION
Trade Paperback — ISBN  978-1-80394-343-5 [£12.99]

ABOUT THE BOOK

At last, Goya’s immortal etchings get the fictive treatment they deserve! Grotesque, mordant, and darkly hilarious by turn, the satiric images of Los Caprichos are as relevant now as they were when they were first published in 1799. In an era of war and extreme cruelty very much like our own, they laid bare the folly and absurdity of the human condition. As do the stories Michael Swanwick has crafted to accompany them. It is a monstrous and possibly even blas-phemous work of hubris for a contemporary writer to collaborate with an artist recog-nized as “the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns” two centuries after his death rendered him unable to give his consent to the project. But Swanwick is up to the task. Read this book and discover for yourself the satirical worlds of Goya and Swanwick.