The Siege in the Room: Three Novellas (Catalan Literature) - Hardcover

Bauca, Miquel

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ISBN 10: 1564787311 ISBN 13: 9781564787316

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012

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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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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 Bauca 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 Bauca's work is a pungent reminder of the ways the world fails its prophets and pariahs.

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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1564787311
• ISBN 13: 9781564787316
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 149