Carmen de Mairena is much more than what we know about her. She is a woman who fought to be a woman. Woman of neighborhood and street, a television star, a friend of friends who cheat on her, an emblem of the other Barcelona, a person of flesh and blood who laughs (less and less) and suffers (more and more).
The young artist Carlota Juncosa shared almost a year with Carmen de Mairena. From that strange friendship emerged an illustrated biography, as contradictory and unique as its protagonist.
When Carlota Juncosa tells her that she is going to write a book about her, Carmen de Mairena responds with courtly indifference. She doesn't care about books, she cares. Nor does she know too well what sense, what function a book plays. Not a wonderful book like Carlota Juncosa's.
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