EXAPODO

"Horla" in the original. Neologism consisting of the words hors (= outside) and là (= here),
creating the same compound word-synonym of the Devil that we also find in Greek (Exapodo) and
means "one who comes from somewhere outside this world".

Three stories that immerse us directly in the creative atmosphere of Guy de Maupassant, one of them
most prominent French authors and throughout time unsurpassed meter of the small form.
Intensely autobiographical, the short story O Exapodo, together with the Count and the Vision that complete it,
captures a pattern that characterized the author himself during his lifetime: madness, altered state
consciousness and terror before those inexplicable effects which leave their indelible marks
on the body.

Mauro Cascioli's paintings that illustrate this edition transcend any physical or mental
context, introducing us to a dazzling unfathomable universe that reveals the narrowness of reason
glance.