The enormity of the tragedy / Quim Monzó ; translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monzó, Quim, 1952-

Standardized Title:

Magnitad de la tragèdia. English

Language:

Catalan

English

Subjects (All):

Trumpet players--Spain--Fiction.

Trumpet players.

Spain.

Genre:

Allegories.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Chester Springs, PA : Peter Owen, 2007.

Summary:

Quim Monzo is the foremost Catalan writer of his generation and has been translated into over a dozen languages. The Enormity of the Tragedy is regarded by many as his greatest work. At once a dirty joke and a high-brow novel, this book tells the bizarre story of Ramon Maria, a balding middle aged widower who works as a trumpet player in a burlesque show. He has a hostile relationship with his stepdaughter who steals from him while going through her own dramas of adolescent love. After a night of embarrassing, drunken impotence, Ramon finds this problem permanently fixed, making him infinitely more attractive to the opposite sex. Tensions build until his stepdaughter finally resolves to kill Ramon. This novel has been hailed across Europe as a masterpiece of literary parody. Newcomers are bound to find Quim Monzo's work funny, endearing and of searing intelligence.

ISBN:

9780720612998

0720612993

OCLC:

159703056