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The Residencia de Estudiantes releases a new title in its small-format collection "Conferencias y lecciones en la Residencia."

This bilingual edition is the result of the reading of New York writer Frederic Tuten's story Self Portrait with Bullfighy (Autorretrato con toros) at the Residencia de Estudiantes in February 2010.

In this short story, the protagonist and narrator, an American who is spending his honeymoon in Madrid, decides that tolerance is the key to a lasting marriage and tests his new wife’ patience by telling her in detail a story of rivalry that he lived in his youth to win the love of a gypsy woman.

María Lozano, professor of English at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, who has translated and edited some of the great Anglo-Saxon authors, such as Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated this story and wrote the introduction.

Frederic Tuten (New York, 1936) grew up in the Bronx and received his PhD at New York University with a dissertation on early 19th century American literature. He is the author of six novels: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1977), Tallien (1989), Tintin in the New World (1994), Van Gogh's Bad Cafe (1997), The Green Hour (2002), and Self Portraits: Fictions (2010). His stories have appeared in some of the most prestigious literary journals, such as Conjunctions, Fence, The New Review of Literature, and Granta.

As a critic of art, film and literature, he has written in Art Forum, The New York Times, Vogue and Vanity Fair, among other publications. He is also the author of essays and interviews with artists like R. B. Kitaj, David Salle, Roy Lichtenstein, Eric Fischl, John Baldessari, and Ross Bleckner. In 2001 he received the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

PAPERBACK. 11 × 16 cm, 232 pp.
ISBN: 978-84-95078-96-4