EL INEFABLE PHILIP

With this edition El inefable Philip by Aurora Bertrana is published for the first time. In the novel Bertrana tells the story of Anna, a bourgeois woman obsessed with Philip, an extraordinary handsome man who was the son of a thread manufacturer from England. For Anna Philips beauty is such that she sees him as if he was a deity. Anna manages to marry him despite Philips warning that he will never be able to make any woman happy. Anna disregards Philips revelation. She believes that through her charms and pleasing Philip in every way she will change her husbands mind. However, Annas attempts are futile. Philip is attracted to men and for nothing in the world he would give up his freedom and pleasures. In addition to a failed marriage, with Philip Anna discovers alternative ways of living. However, the modern and bohemian life that Philip and his friends propose to Anna is too far from her traditional values and beliefs. For this reason, when Philip dies in a hospital after suffering a traffic accident, Anna decides to marry her lifelong friend Agustí Bruguera.