Lady Soleda
Dialogues between an elderly writer, his faithful dog, and a brain invader
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Horácio is a 70-year-old writer, both sarcastic and sensitive, who faces loneliness with sharp humor and lucidity.
Bianca is Horácio’s daughter, a doctor, lesbian, and independent. She seeks reconciliation without losing her firmness.
Botox is a small, white, fluffy dog, inherited from Clarice. Silent and watchful.
Lady Soleda is a sensitive and ironic dive into the mind of Horácio, a 70-year-old writer who lives alone with his little dog, Botox. Loneliness, here renamed Lady L…, is a constant presence, an intimate companion with whom one negotiates daily life.
Horácio faces her with sarcasm, intelligence, and a disconcerting lucidity. The book is a sharp inner monologue in which Horácio revisits memories, regrets, and repressed desires while conversing with his ghosts and challenging his own limits. He doesn’t idealize aging, he laughs at it.
Nor does he run from pain; he observes it with affection and irony. Botox, the dog inherited from Clarice, his wife taken by Lady Ultimate, is more than a pet, he is the silent confidant of lonely nights and the witness to Horácio’s restlessness, even his most intimate ones.
Lady Soleda is an honest and provocative portrait of old age, sexuality, and the search for meaning, even when one is already near the end of the line. A book about what we were, what we left unsaid, and what might still be lived.
Clarice was Horácio’s silent and enigmatic wife a presence that remains strong even after Lady Ultimate.​​
Luciana, Bianca’s wife, is a young woman in her early to mid-thirties. Calm and conciliatory, she is unfazed by gender and racial prejudice.
Gabriel is the black sheep son, marked by grief, paternal absence, and drug addiction. He carries a silent pain and a restrained anger.
Anselmo is a reclusive writer who never publishes what he writes. Their conversations are philosophical refuges, where laughter and despair walk side by side.