In Wilder Winds, Bel Olid presents a stunning collection of short stories that draw on notions of individual freedom, abuses of power, ingrained social violence, life on the outskirts of society, and inevitable differences.
With Resta Kaotica Ametller follows on from his kaleidoscopic Summa Kaotica as his story unfolds to followe the timeline of defeat after the Civil War. Once again, AmetllerâEUR(TM)s narration eschews naturalistic treatment and envelops the reader with an enormous mass of cultural, magical, mythical or philosophical references that give a particular and peculiar vision of the world. Resta Kaotica is a mind bending, highly experimental work of literature, encompassing legend and mysticism in which Ametller digs to open the doors of new perceptions.Â
On violence, crime, guilt and atonement.We meet our narrator in an underground office where he sharpens pencils, shreds paper, makes coffee for the other employees and thinks over and over about a late night that he has been trying to forget for a long time. In between the meaningless work, he manages to scratch down some names and phrases, and conjures up a dream from 1980s Hadeland. In this saga, Hadeland is a shadow home where spooks, ghosts, angels and robot-like creatures are just as natural as animals and flesh and blood humans.But what happened that late summer night? What is it that the narrator has tried to forget? And who is this Calf, who was "killed to death"? Our narrator takes readers in circles through different events, times and places; a whirlwind in which the calf and other characters are like prisoners in a tornado from Dante's Inferno.The Calf is a peasant story, a western novel, a dream quatrain, an adventure, science fiction and a black comedy about violence, crime, guilt and atonement.
A plague of Asian wasps endangers the production of honey in a neighbourhood in the middle of the Dordogne. On a sweltering summer day, someone arrives to make an environmental report and finds a fragile microclimate on the verge of collapse.
Atlantis is a majestic, epic poem and a lasting jewel of Catalan literary tradition. With a colossal architecture and a descriptive power that creates memorable passages of prodigious beauty - the vision of the garden of the Hesperides and the dream of Queen Isabel are just some examples - this poem was the winner of the Jocs Florals in 1877, the forging work of the modern Catalan literary language, and earned Verdaguer literary recognition in and outside of Catalonia.
A lively, powerful description of landscapes, events and people from one of Catalonia's foremost writers.
A moving story about environment, family and the paths ever leading us back home.
A truly fascinating, yet devastating portrait of a politically divided Madrid from a remarkable new writer.
An exciting collection of poems spanning nearly forty years from one of Catalonia's finest poets.
A heartbreaking ode to friendship and memory written in powerful, poetic prose.
A delicate, beautifully written testimony to depression from one of Spain's most exciting new voices.
Wild Horses is a brutally powerful, unflinching account of the heroin epidemic that swept across Catalonia in the 1980s.
How does one experience things from the viewpoint of the other sex? It is this question that has led to Vildotâ¿s creation of Ruth, the genre-defining story of a sex change told by the protagonist through a series of letters to an anonymous friend.
In the eight stories presented in The Song of Youth, Montserrat Roig (Barcelona, 1946-1991) employs languageas a weapon against political and social "dismemory", enabling the stories of those silenced by the brutal Francoregime to come to the fore. Feminist, critical but always lyrical, Roig's writing gives shape and meaning to thehuman experience.
The Intimate Resistance is a keen, deeply beautiful reflection on the human condition. The author explains howwe ourselves can warm, protect and guide those around us.
In 1837, at the height of the Carlist Wars and a time of conflict between the past and future, a young Prussianman crosses the Pyrenees to fight for the 'Order'. Finding himself trapped in the ruins of an abandoned city,his bewilderment at the war and what it means increases. Friendship, family, religion and politics: everythingis distorted, transformed or destroyed. The Others oscillates masterfully between humour and tragedy and is anovel full of music, eccentric characters and extraordinary scenes.
Joan Maragall's poetry is finally available in English translation. Thanks to Puppo's fantastic work, readers in English will be able to enjoy the work of one of the most important European writers of the 19th and 20th century.
Six stories about Christmas and winter from award-winning writer, Jordi Llavina. Llavina's stories conjure up ghosts from the past, old loves and distant memories in six hauntingly written tales that focus on our relationships with our loved ones and ourselves over the Christmas period.
Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller's The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the eyes of an anonymous "narrator" character, The Madness tells the story of a young revolutionary called Daniel Serrallonga and his gradual deterioration into madness and delusion. Set against the backdrop of the political crisis that ripped Spain apart in the mid to late 19th century and laid the foundations of the Spanish Civil War, The Madness is a fascinating study of mental health within both rural and urban Catalan society.As relevant and entertaining now as it was when it was first published, this lively translation brings this fantastic piece of literature to new, modern audiences while drawing parallels with some of the 19th century's greatest English language writers such as Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.
Written in the form of a diary that runs from 1926 to 1928, English Hours is a delightful account of a Catalan in the UK during the inter-war period. In it, Soldevila writes endearingly of the country and people that he meets while providing us with an invaluable "foreign" look at this critical period in 20th century Great Britain.
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