Miquel Bauca

The Siege in the Room (eBook, ePUB)

Three Novellas
Übersetzer: Tennent, Martha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Carrer Marsala, which won prizes from the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya-neither of which Bauçà 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 details the narrator's own captivity, and his relationship with the woman who keeps him prisoner. In Martha Tennent's haunting translation, reminiscent of a Mediterranean Beckett or Thomas Bernhard, Miquel Bauçà's work is a pungent reminder of the ways the world fails its prophets and pariahs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781564787712
• Artikelnr.: 49450314

Autorenporträt

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.