Diálogo de una prostituta con su cliente

Women and sex, women and friendship, women and suffering: the three works collected in this volume explore the female universe in its darkest and most mysterious facets. The female body refuses to become merchandise in the dialogue between Manila and her client that gives the book its title: a poignant and ironic conversation in which the woman uses the only weapon she has at her disposal, the word, to expose the lies of the man, who talks about love and protection, but just wants to abuse his body. In Two Provincial Women, two servants consumed by a life of servitude confide secrets and memories while working in the home of a man they hardly know. As the women delve into the account of their experiences, the frustration and anger caused by a life devoted to caring for and honoring men emerge in the conversation. A family of Sicilian immigrants stars in The Dreams of Clytemnestra. The episodes of death and madness experienced by its components oscillate between Greek tragedy and urban violence and incubate a deadly conflict between the rebellious mother, called Clytemnestra, and a daughter who feels devotion to the father, the shadowy Electra. Three stories that bring out the seams of patriarchy and offer the gaze of women who have suffered it in their flesh; three complaints and an imperative invitation to change the rules of our society.