DineOpinion - Reseñas Mortales

La mujer fría (La Novela Corta, 1922) es una narración de corte misterioso y gótico sobre una mujer que esconde un terrible y trágico secreto que le impide sus relaciones íntimas con los hombres

Summer of 1996. After a long career to the service of the Security of the State, Alvaro Brito prepares to take possession as a delegate of the Government in Argenta. High-priority objective of ETA, Brito is a man with a fame of being tough, but he drags many enemies and some weaknesses. Also, there is his son Simon, an uprooted boy, breed in the rarified atmospheres of successive civil governments.

Jeremy Davenant, experto en las obras apócrifas de Shakespeare, está completamente entregado al amor que le ha marcado el destino: Milena, belleza morena de rasgos hindúes, salvaje, desconcertante e inaprensible, que representa, para él, la reencarnación del modelo shakespeariano de la «Dama Oscura». Jeremy, ingenuo, vital y apasionado, está convencido de que su relación ha sido predestinada por la Página, una hoja arrancada al azar de una enciclopedia y que ha convertido en su talismán, un instrumento de suma importancia que ha de guiar sus pasos. Una obstinación que durará...

A scientist Professor, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl Alraune suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she revenges herself against the scientist, her "father."