Vlad Classics and Modernism This is the first full-scale

This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time: the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola

On the surface an elegantly turned and acutely observed so­cial comedy

Down There They Don’t Mourn

with the aid of an Indian priestess

sexually—with an obsessively rationalist couple

Vlad Classics and Modernism This is the first full-scaleWhere, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic . . . Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances?