Raül Garrigasait: Els estranys (The Others)
The latest addition to my website is Raül Garrigasait's Els estranys (The Others). The narrator is to translate the memoirs of Felix Lichnowsky, a Prussian army officer who fought in…
Llorenç Villalonga: Andrea Víctrix (Andrea Víctrix)
The latest addition to my website is Llorenç Villalonga's Andrea Víctrix (Andrea Víctrix). This is a dystopian novel set in Palma de Mallorca but now called Turclub. Our unnamed narrator…
Eva Baltasar: Permagel (Permafrost)
The latest addition to my website is Eva Baltasar's Permagel (Permafrost). This novel is based on Baltasar being told by her therapist to write about her life, which she did,…
Max Besora: Aventures i desventures de l’insòlit i admirable Joan Orpí, conquistador i fundador de la Nova Catalunya (Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí)
The latest addition to my website is Max Besora's Aventures i desventures de l’insòlit i admirable Joan Orpí, conquistador i fundador de la Nova Catalunya (Adventures and Misadventures of the…
Narcís Oller: La bogeria (The Madness)
The latest addition to my website is Narcís Oller's La bogeria (The Madness). This is a short novel set in the late nineteenth century about a Catalan engineer and landowner…
Mercè Rodoreda: Jardí vora el mar (Garden by the Sea)
The latest addition to my website is Mercè Rodoreda's Jardí vora el mar (Garden by the Sea). This is a beautiful book, narrated by the gardener to a summer residence,…
Catalan Literature Part 2
I have now read twenty Catalan novels in a row, by twenty different writers. I cannot say that these novels were typical of the Catalan novel but nevertheless, I shall…
Jaume Cabré: Jo confesso (Confessions)
The latest addition to my website is Jaume Cabré's Jo confesso (Confessions). This is the final book in my 2018 Catalan marathon. It is also the longest (around 1000 pages)…
Mercè Rodoreda: La mort i la primavera (Death in Spring)
The latest addition to my website is Mercè Rodoreda's La mort i la primavera (Death in Spring). Though Rodoreda wrote this book at around the same time as she wrote…
Najat El Hachmi: L’últim patriarca (The Last Patriarch)
The latest addition to my website is Najat El Hachmi's L’últim patriarca (The Last Patriarch). Najat El Hachmi may not seem a Catalan name and it is not. El Hachmi…