by Quim Monzó · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467207934
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«Splassshf» is a collection of short stories by Quim Monzó, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback, 278 pages, in Spanish.
The volume brings together a selection of stories by Catalan author Quim Monzó. His tales explore everyday life with humour, logic and absurdity, condensing recognisable feelings and situations into very brief texts with a direct, concise style and an ironic gaze on the ordinary.
Edition published in 2004. The selection and prologue are by Julià Guillamon, and the translations from Catalan are by Javier Cercas and Marcelo Cohen.
For readers of short fiction who want to approach a selection of stories with humour, logic and absurdity.
Joaquim Monzó i Gómez, also known as Quim Monzó, is a contemporary Spanish writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXpres. He was one of the members of the Catalan literary collective, Ofèlia Dracs. He lives in Barcelona and publishes regularly in La Vanguardia.
