El Centauro (The Centaur) is a prose poem by the French Romantic writer Maurice de Guérin — a mythological meditation on nature, belonging, and the body as both human and animal. The brief was to design an edition of the text that felt as elemental as the writing itself.
The book is built on a restrained typographic system — generous white space, classical references, and a glossary of mythological figures — giving the text room to unfold without interference.
Something in the text felt personal — the centaur, old and still, speaking from a mountain, trying to describe what it once meant to be young, moving, alive. That tension informed the tone of the edition.
Three hand-bound copies were printed and exhibited at Museo de la Cárcova.
