The Siege in the Room
Three Novellas
Published on 24. July 2012
224 pages
978-1-56478-771-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 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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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- OTHER WORKS IN THE CATALAN LITERATURE SERIES
- Translator's Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Carrer Marsala
- The Old Man
- The Warden
- CATALAN LITERATURE SERIES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Copyright
