Las bellas y sus bestias

What do they have to feed real human beasts from their hand? With what powerful light do they dazzle them until they forget themselves? How are those dragons subdued by those who seem to wear them tied with a bow of subtlety? These pages seek to get closer to that secret, moving or disturbing, although for this we must first discover the conditions that produce monsters with a human face, a mixture of terror and poetry, the best and the worst of civilization. Explaining these bizarre natures in the course of history and their reflections in culture, and above all, understanding with beautiful ones that subdue them is the object of the first part of the book. The second is about fairies, those fairies promised to give news of their world, their stories, their explorers (those who looked for them, and some found them) and some genealogies linked, in the beginning, to the demonic, however strange it may be. resemble each other. Its central nucleus explores the story of "Beauty and the Beast" with its roots and later adventures in the cinema, mainly the masterpiece of Jean Cocteau or the imaginative variant of "King Kong"; since this book claims to be, above all, a tribute to the beautiful women and their beasts through literature, the world of art and cinema.