Astra Magazine is a brand new international literary magazine, an emerging must-read for anyone interested in the best new literature from around the world.
Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from around the world - New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. We want to bring about a new, borderless, and vital mode of reading. Astra is a magazine for our new moment, bringing us together while, the world over, we create new language for ourselves.
Issue Number 2: Filth is dedicated to the dirty and the lowly, to the beautiful as well as the abject. Filth is a term that encompasses everything from actual trash to cultural garbage, the foetid, the foul and the pestilent and ranges into obscenity, smut and shame. This issue will explore the splendor in squalor and the pleasure in pain. Featuring thrilling and original new fiction, poetry, essays, art, and comics from writers and arists around the world.
Astra Magazine is a brand new international literary magazine, an emerging must-read for anyone interested in the best new literature from around the world. Astra Magazine will connect readers and writers from around the world - New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. We want to bring about a new, borderless, and vital mode of reading, with a focus on literature in translation and original writing in English. Were interested in the inter: the overlaps, the in-between, the authors who defy easy categorization. We are on the cusp of a new era, more isolated and more interconnected than ever before. Astra is a magazine of this new moment, bringing us together while, the world over, we create a new language for ourselves.
Blancaflor est une jeune femme ayant hérité d'extraordinaires pouvoirs de son père, un ogre méchant qui mange ses adversaires pour le dîner. Lorsqu'un prince tombe du ciel et se réveille sur ses genoux, elle tombe immédiatement amoureuse. Sur invitation de l'ogre, celui-ci est venu relever une série d'épreuves à l'issue desquelles il cédera son royaume ou remportera celui de son adversaire. Mais le jeune homme ne se doute pas qu'il s'agit là d'un plan imaginé par l'ogre, qui le mènera irrémédiablement à sa perte. Sans le lui faire savoir, Blancaflor remuera ciel et terre pour lui venir en aide, et donner une chance à leur histoire. Nadja Spiegelman et Sergio García Sánchez réactualisent avec brio un classique latino-américain vantant la force et l'ingéniosité des femmes.
