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
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
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
At once a dirty joke and a highbrow novel, this tale tells the bizarre story of Ramon Maria, a balding, middle-aged. trumpet player who wakes up one day with a massive neverending erection. Hailed across Europe as a masterpiece of literary parody, it is b
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
