Name: The Siege in the Room: Three Novellas (Catalan Literature)
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Author: Miquel Bauca
ISBN: 9781564787316

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

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Physical Book

Publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

Author

Miquel Bauca

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

149

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

1564787311

ISBN13

9781564787316

Synopsis "The Siege in the Room: Three Novellas (Catalan Literature) "

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

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