'The Last Dream': Pedro Almodóvar's 'fragmentary autobiography'
Every reality needs fiction. Pedro Almodóvar learnt this much from his mother, who once worked as a letter reader in her village, imaginatively embellishing the local correspondence. In the title story to a new book of stories he has described as a "fragmentary autobiography", Almodóvar narrates his final farewell to his mother. "The Last Dream" is one of 12 stories in which the world-famous filmmaker behind "All About My Mother" and "Talk to Her" proves himself to be also a talented literary writer. Written in widely varying genres, the stories come from very different periods of the 74-year-...