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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 Bauca 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 Bauca's work is a pungent reminder of the ways the world fails its prophets and pariahs.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Siege in the Room
• Author: Miquel Bauca
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 149
• EAN: 9781564787705
• ISBN: 1564787702
• ID: 04813913
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 226 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 140 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. August 2012

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