SEVEN TO ELEVEN DREAMS
Reading
Alberto García del Castillo invited me to perform a reading of the dreams of Adonis, the Mexico City homosexual hustler and protagonist of Luis Zapata’s 1979 notorious novel El vampiro de la colonia Roma.
The reading uses the novel’s translation to English by E. A. Lacey untitled Adonis García: A Picaresque Novel and published by San Franciscan Gay Sunshine Press in 1981.
Beursschouwburg, Brussels 07.NOV.2018
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El vampiro de la colonia Roma is a novel by Mexican writer, playwright, screenwriter and translator Luis Zapata. It is considered a classic piece of homosexual literature and an example of the 1970s revolutionary post-Onda literary movement in Mexico.
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“I know it sounds crazy, but I wouldn’t mind seeing El vampiro… turned into a musical.”
Luis Zapata
The novel recounts the adventures of Adonis García, a witty working-class chichifo (a homosexual hustler) who moves to a thrilling Mexico City and lives in Colonia Roma. This vampire unapologetically spoke and continuous to speak of homosexual pleasures and sex work in Mexico City.
