The Affairs of Don Entrerrosca
(2025)(A book in the Trojan Donkey Chapbooks series)
A Story by Rhys Hughes
The absurd romantic adventures of a wandering minstrel.
"Who was he? Imagine a Macbeth without a blasted heath, except on the heels of his shoes. Picture to yourself an Orpheus with a head which would not float in water or wine, but which could swim on the surface of a mirror. It is not that Don Entrerrosca was vain and loved his own reflection; but he knew every song of Carlos Gardel and Eduardo Arolas, and this gave him an excess of justified pride. He was famous for his odd ideas. He theorised that the most effective lutes are carved in one piece from a whole tree. And now he was ready to prove it. Perhaps what followed has nothing to do with magic. It could be simply that his voice was very fine, and that the tips of his fingers were just soft and furious enough on the strings. Or maybe he really had discovered the lost songs of Orpheus, which can charm all things."
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes''' style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ — JEFF VANDERMEER
Genre: Fantasy
"Who was he? Imagine a Macbeth without a blasted heath, except on the heels of his shoes. Picture to yourself an Orpheus with a head which would not float in water or wine, but which could swim on the surface of a mirror. It is not that Don Entrerrosca was vain and loved his own reflection; but he knew every song of Carlos Gardel and Eduardo Arolas, and this gave him an excess of justified pride. He was famous for his odd ideas. He theorised that the most effective lutes are carved in one piece from a whole tree. And now he was ready to prove it. Perhaps what followed has nothing to do with magic. It could be simply that his voice was very fine, and that the tips of his fingers were just soft and furious enough on the strings. Or maybe he really had discovered the lost songs of Orpheus, which can charm all things."
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes''' style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ — JEFF VANDERMEER
Genre: Fantasy
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