Ada Castells: Mirada [Look]
The latest addition to my website is Ada Castells' Mirada [Look]. It seemingly tells the story of a ghost, a former detective, who is obsessed with a beautiful model called…
The latest addition to my website is Ada Castells' Mirada [Look]. It seemingly tells the story of a ghost, a former detective, who is obsessed with a beautiful model called…
The latest addition to my website is Montserrat Roig's El temps de les cireres [The Time of Cherries]. It tells the story of Natalia, who has been away twelve years…
The latest addition to my website is Xavier Benguerel's Icària, Icària, a Catalan novel set in Barcelona in 1922 and in the United States some seventy-five years earlier. Clemente Rovira's…
The latest addition to my website is Lluís-Anton Baulenas' Alfons XIV : un crim d’estat [Alfonso XIV: A Crime of State]. Though one of his novels has been translated into…
There has been a lot of discussion recently by and about translators of novels, the fact that they do not get the credit they deserve and are not recognised. This…
British readers and, perhaps, others will recognise the title as a quote from the sitcom Dad's Army, frequently uttered by Private Frazer. I must say that I never took to…
The latest novel on my website is Jordi Coca's Sota la pols (Under the Dust). This is a very grim fictionalised autobiography of a boy growing up in the slums…
The latest addition to my website is Llorenç Villalonga's Bearn o la sala de las muñecas (Bearn or The Doll’s Room; The Doll’s Room). The book has been published in…
The latest addition to my website is Joan Sales' Incerta glòria (Uncertain Glory). This is a long rambling novel but is considered the best Catalan Civil War novel. It focusses…
Our weekend in Porto introduced me to José de Almada Negreiros, a Portuguese writer and artist, of whom, I admit, I had never heard before. The Museu Nacional Soares dos…