Of course, the difficulty for the Lemebelian work of finding an editorial space in France can be explained, among other things, by a policy of publishing houses focused on the fictional market.

Moreover, several documentaries – Lemebel by Joanna Reposi Garibaldi or even Pedro Lemebel: Corazón en Fuga by Verónica Qüense – and a film – My Tender Matador, adapted from his eponymous novel by the Chilean director Rodrigo Sepúlveda – have been made, although they are still struggling, on French territory, to obtain exploitation. Preciado in the newspaper Liberation “ Pedro Lemebel, ton âme ne lâchera jamais“, and included in the collection Un appartement sur Uranus, is the most notable in France. Thus, the French public has only a narrow vision of this author whose popularity does not cease growing – among the articles published since his death in 2015, the tribune of Paul B. Lemebel is best known in Chile and in the Spanish-speaking world for his Chronicles, published in the press in 1991 then in book form in 1995, of which we can cite the following titles: Loco afán: Crónicas del sidario (1996), De perlas y cicatrices (1998) or Zanjón de la Aguada (2003). It was all the more unfortunate that Lemebel’s fictional writing only constitutes a very minor part of his literary works – not to mention his artistic output within the collective Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis (Mares of the Apocalypse).

We can hardly fall back on the (partial) online publications of his now famous queer poem, “ Manifiesto (Hablo por mi diferencia)”. From the Chilean author Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015), French readers know only one novel, Tengo miedo torero, published in 2001 in Chile and then in 2004 in France.

Tengo miedo torero by Pedro Lemebel