by Hugo Claus · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433906373
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«El deseo» is the contemporary fiction novel by Belgian writer Hugo Claus, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (212 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Ghent, the story revolves around the regulars of the Unicornio café and Rikkebot, a reckless and cynical gambler whose death drives two friends to flee to America, and the journey takes them to Las Vegas in an odyssey between the comic and the pathetic, with sarcasm and compassion, and with a search for purity as a backdrop.
It is number 286 in the Panorama de narrativas collection. Translated from Dutch by Malou van Wijk; original title: «Het verlangen» (1978). This Spanish edition was published in 1993.
A read for the general public interested in contemporary fiction and European narrative.
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, novels, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English. He won the 2000 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
