A surreal roller-coaster of bitter invective and paradox, incorporating a verbal lashing for Mrs Thatcher and all the Chicago cheerleaders for the new world order. A resurrected Karl Marx visits scenes of former triumphs in Moscow, where MacLenin T-shirts
A Thousand Morons, Quim Monzó's latest collection of short stories, is rife with very unfortunate characters. There's the young boy in "A Cut" who is upbraided by his teacher when he rudely shows up for class with a huge gash in his neck. And the prince
All the heroes of this collection—Ulysses and his minions trapped in the Trojan horse; the man who cannot escape his house; Gregor the cockroach, who wakes one day to discover he has become a human teenager—are faced with a world that is always changi
En este libro, la capacidad de síntesis de Quim Monzó llega a su máxima pureza: sus relatos, aparentemente simples y esquemáticos, son una enérgica exhibición de maestría, y se complementan para formar un todo que nos muestra con implacable precisi
Traduït a més d'una dotzena de llengües, la crítica europea ha relacionat Quim Monzó amb Kafka, Borges i Rabelais. El seu primer llibre de relats, Uf, va dir ell (1978), va ser valorat unànimement com una aportació de primeríssim ordre a la renova
Este libro de Monzó contiene trece cuentos y una novela corta en los que despliega un alarde de comicidad negra. Historias crueles, de felicidad, violencia e infiernos privados. A la maestría demostrada en sus libros anteriores, Monzó incorpora a éste
Heribert Juliá and Humbert Herrera are opposites: the one can no longer paint, and doesn't much care, the other wants to create the sculpture to end all sculptures, the film of all films, the exhibit of all exhibitions. One couldn't care less about his m
In 1943, General Thadeus Dreyer, a WWI hero who trains doubles for Nazi leaders, disappears. In 1960, Adolf Eichmann, a master chess player, is arrested in Buenos Aires, extradited to Israel, and hanged. Years later, a dying Polish count casts doubt on Ei
