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The Siege in the Room: Three Novellas (Catalan Literature)
Miquel Bauca
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Description for The Siege in the Room: Three Novellas (Catalan Literature)
Paperback. Translator(s): Tennant, Martha. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226. Three Novellas. 149 pages, illustrations. In these three haunting novellas by Catalan literature s great maverick and recluse, Miquel Bauca, there is a pungent reminder, like a Mediterranean Beckett or Thomas Bernhard, of the ways the world fails its prophets and pariahs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 204 x 140 x 13. Weight: 226. Translator(s): Tennant, Martha.
This volume brings together three short novels by Catalan literature's great maverick and recluse, each depicting a brutal, abstract world where words are the only reality--shifting between the erudite, the archaic, and the vulgar. "Carrer Marsala," which won prizes from the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya--neither of which Bau bothered to accept--is a relentless monologue delivered by a paranoid hypochondriac obsessed with dental hygiene, sex, and his own squalid rooms in Barcelona. In "The Old Man," the narrator observes a strange building where a decrepit prisoner is ritually beaten by a policeman once a week. "The Warden" ... Read more
This volume brings together three short novels by Catalan literature's great maverick and recluse, each depicting a brutal, abstract world where words are the only reality--shifting between the erudite, the archaic, and the vulgar. "Carrer Marsala," which won prizes from the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya--neither of which Bau bothered to accept--is a relentless monologue delivered by a paranoid hypochondriac obsessed with dental hygiene, sex, and his own squalid rooms in Barcelona. In "The Old Man," the narrator observes a strange building where a decrepit prisoner is ritually beaten by a policeman once a week. "The Warden" ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
149
Condition
New
Number of Pages
149
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564787705
SKU
V9781564787705
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Ref
99-15
About Miquel Bauca
Miquel Bauca (1940-2005) was perhaps the most radical stylist, iconoclast, and visionary in Catalan literature: eschewing publicity, insulting his peers, and writing unclassifiable books. Today he is seen as a cult figure, and his works as contemporary classics. Francesc Trabal was born in Sabadell, Spain, in 1899. He contributed to numerous magazines from an early age, and was a centrally ... Read more
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