by Saki · Eumo Editorial SAU · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476021590
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«Bèsties i superbèsties» is Saki's collection of satirical short stories, published by Eumo Editorial in paperback (272 pages, in Catalan).
The book brings together 36 stories that satirize the comfortable English society before the First World War. With sharp irony and concise style, Saki dissects characters and actions of innocent appearance until revealing a sinister background; several of these pieces are considered masterpieces of the 20th-century short story.
«Bèsties i superbèsties» is volume 7 of the Narratives collection from Eumo Editorial. The Catalan translation is by Jacint Bofias i Alberch; the original title, Beasts and Super-Beasts, dates from 1914.
Recommended for readers interested in social satire, the short story and early 20th-century English literature.
Hector Hugh Munro, popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
