The Son Of Black Thursday

About Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Tocopilla Chile. From an early age he became interested in mime and theater; at the age of 23 he left for Paris to pursue the arts and has lived there ever since. A friend and companion of Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor he founded the Panic movement and has directed several classic films of this style including The Holy Mountain El Topo and Santa Sangre. A mime artist specialist in the art of tarot and prolific author he has written novels poetry short stories essays and over thirty successful comic books working with such highly regarded comic book artists as Moebius and Bess. Restless Books has published three of Jodorowskys best-known books for the first time in English: Where the Bird Sings Best The Son of Black Thursday and Albina and the Dog-Men.Megan McDowell is a Spanish-language literary translator from Kentucky. Her work includes books by Alejandro Zambra Samanta Schweblin Lina Meruane Mariana Enríquez Álvaro Bisama Arturo Fontaine and Juan Emar. Her translations have been published in The New Yorker The Paris Review Tin House McSweeney's Words Without Borders Mandorla and VICE among others. Her translation of Zambra's novel Ways of Going Home won the 2013 PEN Award for Writing in Translation. She lives in Santiago Chile.