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by Quim Monzó

Selección de los mejores relatos del escritor catalán. Prologo del crítico y conocedor de la obra de Monzó, Julià Guillamón: "De la contracultura al estupor". Traducciones de Marcelo Cohen y Javier Cercas.

278 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

Quim Monzó was born in Barcelona in 1952.
He has been awarded the National Award for fiction; the City of Barcelona Award for fiction; the Prudenci Bertrana Award for fiction; the El Temps Award for best novel; the Lletra d'Or Prize; the Catalan Writers' Award; the Maria Àngels Anglada; the Trajectòria; he has also been awarded Serra d'Or magazine's prestigious Critics' Award, four times.

In 2007 he wrote and read the opening speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Monzó designed a lecture written as if it was a short story. It differed completely from traditional speeches.
Together with Cuca Canals, he wrote the dialogues for Bigas Luna's movie Jamón, jamón. He has also written the musical satire El tango de Don Joan, with Jérôme Savary.
He is a regular contributor to the La Vanguardia newspaper.

Reviews

[XandreRL · Rating 3 out of 5]

Este compendio de relatos, de todas las épocas, del catalán, se debate entre el realismo más puro de algunos de ellos y lo abstracto y onírico de los contrarios. Como todo compendio puede tacharse de irregular, con episodios más brillantes que otros, pero todos con el filtro del peculiar talento de Monzó.