by Alain Claude Sulzer · El Aleph Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476698013
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«El camarero perfecto» is the contemporary fiction novel by Alain Claude Sulzer, published by El Aleph Editores in paperback (217 pages, in Spanish).
Erneste, a hotel waiter who has made perfection in service his way of life, receives after thirty years a letter from Jakob, whom he revered. Jakob asks him to contact Julius Klinger, the former client who separated them, now a successful writer. The novel, set in a Swiss hotel, alternates past and present to explore memory, solitude and the pursuit of perfection.
It belongs to the Modernos y Clásicos collection. Translated from German by Ignacio Romero Valero; the original «Ein perfekter Kellner» is from 2004. It won the Prix Médicis étranger in 2008 and the Prix des Auditeurs RSR in 2009.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, particularly those seeking intimate novels with a love relationship between two men.
Alain Claude Sulzer is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel. Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of Julien Green's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the NZZ. He has published more than ten books and has won several literary awards in the process, such as the Rauris Literature Prize (1984), or the Hermann-Hesse-Preis (2009).
