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Quim Monzó
Eighty-six Stories
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Quaderns Crema
February 1999
640 pages
Translation Rights
Spanish (Anagrama), Russian (ATTICUS PUBLISHING GROUP LLC), German (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt),
Original Title: Vuitanta-sis contes
Quim Monzó has been translated into over a dozen languages. European critics link him to Kafka, Borges and Rabelais. His first book of short stories, Oof, He Said (1978), was regarded unanimously as a major contribution to the renovation of the local literary scene and the creation of a genuinely modern literary language. Then came Olivetti, Moulinex, Chaffoteaux et Maury and Maians Island. With every new volume, he has been able to increase the demands and the rigour he has applied to himself and has created an enormous and unusual popular interest, as in The Reason for Absolutely Everything (1993) and Guadalajara (1996). In the present book, Monzó presents all the stories he has published up to date in revised versions, applying to himself his usual stiff demands and rigour. Eighty-Six Stories is the result. The reader will be able to appreciate Monzó at his very best.
Prizes
Premi Nacional de Literatura 2000
Premio Lletra d’Or 2000
Praises
«Over twenty years ago, Quim Monzó changed the course of Catalan narrative. He has kept on doing so with every new volume he has published».
Javier Cercas
«Quim Monzó’s work has been a determining factor in the appearance on the scene of a writer with a novel profile that goes way beyond cultural militancy and aspires to literary quality».
Julià Guillamon, La Vanguardia
«In this collection readers will find the immense inventive capacity, the word-plays and the pungent and irreverent humour of one of the great writers of Catalan literature».
Ara
«This volume bears witness to the renewal that Monzó means for Catalan literature».
Regio 7
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Splendour and Glory of the International Dupe
A Thousand Morons
Fourteen Cities Including Brooklyn
Three Christmases
The Topic of the Topic
The Best of Worlds
Completely Helpless
Guadalajara
I won't Plan any Trees
The Reason for Everything
Intercontinental Hotel
The Turkish Suitcase
The Enormity of The Tragedy
Zzzzzzz
Maian's Island
Lord's Day
Gasoline
Olivetti, Moulinex, Chaffoteaux et Maury
Oof, He said
Details
Quaderns Crema
February 1999
1 pages
Translation Rights
Spanish (Anagrama), Russian (ATTICUS PUBLISHING GROUP LLC), German (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt),