The Eyes

110 Pages·1996·31.52 MB·English

by  Jesús Ignacio Aldapuerta

Jesús Ignacio Aldapuerta
The Eyes
Emetic Fables from the
Andalusian de Sade
T H E E Y E S

JESUS IGNACI ALDAPUERTA
THE EYES
A Los Que Derramaron Su Sangre
Por Espana Y Su Caudillo Franco
Translated & Edited
by Lucia Teodora
A Critical Vision Book
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Aldapuerta, Jesus Ignacio
Eyes: Emetic Fables from the Andalusian de Sade
I. Title II. Teodora, Lucia
863.6 [F]
ISBN O-9523288-3-6
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 7
INDOCHINE 13
IKARUS 16
THE SAND, THE SAND 28
YIN&YANG 36
ARMFUL 42
B.V.M. 53
A LA JAPONAISE 60
UPRIGHT 67
ORPHEA 75
THE WINNOWING 81
PORNOGLOSSA 86

INTRODUCTION
J
esus Ignacio Aldapuerta was born in the southern Spanish
city of Seville circa 1950 and died by suicide in Madrid in
1987, burning himself to death in a small room on whose rent
he was nearly three months in arrears. He is known to have
spent much of his life outside Spain, in Central and South
America and the Philippines; what precisely he did there
remains uncertain, and confirmation or refutation of the many
rumours, variously unsavoury and contradictory, that circulat-
ed during his lifetime will have to wait for the complete deci-
pherment of his coded diaries. The following ‘confessions’
were found in letters and previous interviews.
In his homeland, his chief income seems to have been that
of a petty criminal, and he served several prison sentences for
theft and drug offences, the longest and most harrowing under
Franco. What money he generated from his activities was gen-
erally spent on books, almost invariably pornographic, and
prostitutes. His appetite for scatological literature began in his
early teens, inspired by frequent visits to a bookshop in Madrid
where he was introduced to pornographic pamphlets and the
works of deSade. The proprietor realized the strength of his
interest and soon suggested trading volumes for sexual favours.
Aldapuerta was perfectly satisfied with the arrangement and
would “have the old man’s cock jabbing in my arse even when
ready cash was available”, and even when the shelves contained
nothing of worth he “sucked that foul costilla de carno for
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abundant monetary reward”.
Later, Aldapuerta spent two years at medical school where
he learned the geography of the human body and something of
its almost infinite capacity for suffering and degradation. He
took especial delight in tending to the physically incapacitated
and was thankful for the loose coats that “prevented the mat-
rona from spotting the engorged cock that I would occasion-
ally press against the bedridden patient”. On one occasion he
found, wrapped in a wad of medical gauze ready for disposal,
“a tiny circlet of white flesh”. Instantly fascinated, he washed
the circumcised foreskin and took it
home. He boasted to having stretched it over his own penis
and “ejaculating in an instant and without manual stimula-
tion”. But Aldapuerta’s stories are notable for embellishment
and invention, and his catalogue of medical anecdotes may
benothing more than outrageous exaggeration. Needless to say,
he failed to complete his term at medical school. Aldapuerta’s
mother probably encouraged him to write: she wrote as a
hobby and had some success in contributing poems to women’s
magazines.
However, these efforts tend towards the romantic and the
sickly-sweet and hold no indication of the fervid nastiness of
Aldapuerta’s writing. (Unless, of course, one were to read
Aldapuerta’s writing as overt anft-influence.) It wasn’t until
after his death that his family became aware of the more
extreme work, but even by that time they had virtually dis-
owned him.
Like most of the later years of his life, Aldapuerta’s death is
shrouded in rumour and speculation. During his final year,
1987, associates remarked a sudden unhealthy appearance and
palpable air of apathy. Some said these were related to an over-
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due mental breakdown brought on by failure to achieve the
literary fame he so much desired. Others claimed he was
infected with AIDS and dread of the disease’s full onset
prompted his unexpected suicide. Suicide, of course, was the
official cause of his death. But there was other contradictory
gossip about his being the victim of a murderous vendetta car-
ried out by right-wing religious vigilantes outraged by his
blasphemous writings and life-style. This is, no doubt, sensa-
tional speculation, as is the story that Aldapuerta was tortured
and murdered by unpaid drug traffickers.
Nonetheless, he would indubitably have been pleased by the
confusion and scandal surrounding his death.
In March, 1987, his partly cremated body was removed
from his apartment, the building itself saved from conflagra-
tion by the unusually rapid arrival of the emergency services.
The authorities took away various unburned books, documents
- including what remained of his coded diaries, and finished
and unfinished manuscripts - a small quantity of drugs, and
the petrol canister that the police said was sufficient proof of
self-immolation. One other curious item found in his apart-
ment, and photographed in the hands of a smiling policia, was
an intricately carved dildo fashioned from the femur of a child.
Aldapuerta had told several people about this device, his hueso,
and how it was ideal for perineo stimulation during intercourse
or masturbation.
Prior to his death, however, most believed the story to be
yet another example of Aldapuerta’s deliberately audacious
mendacity. No foul play was suspected and the dildo was offi-
cially accepted to be a grotesque memento picked up during
one of his sojourns in South American where similar human
remnants are widely available. Perhaps this is an example of
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