A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life.Imagine a future in which many human emotions are ext
The poetry of the Provençal troubadours has had a profound influence on the development of the lyric, from Dante and Petrarch to Ezra Pound and the Black Mountain poets, despite the difficulty of Ol
The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc – written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century –
The Historia de Jacob Xalabin, a Catalan novel c.1400 about the Ottoman prince Yakub Celebi killed in the aftermath of the battle of Kosovo in 1389, is offered here in a new critical edition with the
Death in Spring tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town—burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sendi
A book of stories, or "narrations," by the finest Catalan writer of his generation. In this beautiful work, translated into English for the first time, Pla transcribes his witnessing
A profoundly touching contribution to the tradition of the metaphysical novel as exemplified by Dostoyevsky and Bernanos, and likewise a worthy counterpart to the vibrant and polyphonic work of fellow
In an American release of a well-received international tale, Jewish violin maker Daniel endures the inhuman conditions of Auschwitz by doing carpentry work and is directed by the camp commander to cr
Studying the medieval tradition of quoting verbatim from troubadour songs, Sarah Kay explores works produced along the arc of the northern Mediterranean in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, ill
This selection of the verse of Valencian poet Vicent Andres Estelles (1924-1993) is accompanied by a translation into English from the original Catalan. The format of an innovative dialogue with class
Lo Somni (The Dream) is a dream allegory divided into four chapters or books. It was written ca. 1399 and is considered Bernat Metge’s best work. It is extremely innovative within the context of Catal
Presents a collection of short stories with a theme of irony, including one in which a young boy in scolded by his teacher for coming to school with a neck wound.
A collection of 34 short stories, originally published in 1935 and considered one of the defining texts of 20th-century Catalan fiction, reflects its culture's political and social upheavals as well a
One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu’s Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of thi
This text offers an analysis of a little known play from the 15th century, providing an English translation of the play's text written originally in Catalan.
Carrer Marsala, which won prizes from the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya—neither of which Bauca bothered to accept—is a relentless monologue delivered by a paranoid hypochondriac o
An anthology of three short novels by the late radical Catalan visionary reflects the ways in which the world fails its prophets and pariahs and includes the award-winning Carrer Marsala, The Old Man
A literary thriller?about a contemporary?gallery owner plunged into a fascinating extinct world?Emili Rossell, the young owner of one of Barcelona's top galleries, receives an old manuscript written b
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