by Pierre Michon · ALFABIA EDICIONES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788461327010
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«Mitologías de invierno. El emperador de occidente» is a narrative book by Pierre Michon, from Ediciones Alfabia in paperback (166 pages, Spanish).
The volume brings together two works by Pierre Michon: a novella portraying the decline of the Western Roman Empire, besieged by barbarian peoples and ruled by powerless emperors, and a series of twelve stories sketching as many brief lives in Ireland and the French Causse, from saints and speleologists to victims of the revolutionary Terror.
Number 6 of the Alfabia collection; translation from French by Nicolás Valencia; foreword by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative, especially those familiar with the work of Pierre Michon.
Pierre Michon is a French writer. His first novel, Small Lives (1984), is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for Small Lives and for The Origin of the World (1996) as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English. He won the 2017 International Nonino Prize in Italy.With an oeuvre consisting of a stunning confessional novel—Vies minuscules (1984)—and a series of Plutarch-like "lives" devoted to famous artists and poets, Michon commands respect as a sensitive author and gifted stylist who seeks to comprehend how we can make sense out of the irrepressible impulses and unavoidable failures that fill our lives. Whether he is charting the misfortunes of the lowly, portraying his own difficult rise from rural poverty and a broken family to the completion of his first book, or plunging into the destinies of Watteau, Goya, Rimbaud, or Van Gogh, Michon poignantly captures the essence of the compelling courses our lives take.
