The Siege in the Room : Three Novellas Hardback
by Miquel Bauca
Part of the Catalan Literature series
Hardback
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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 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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:149 pages
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:06/09/2012
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- ISBN:9781564787316
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:149 pages
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:06/09/2012
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- ISBN:9781564787316
