by Quim Monzó · Quaderns Crema · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477273240
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«El millor dels mons» is the short story collection by Quim Monzó, published by Quaderns Crema in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
Thirteen stories and a novella of incisive black humor about violence, happiness and the most intimate miseries, with characters trapped by their obsessions. The central piece, «Davant del rei de Suècia», portrays a poet obsessed with the Nobel, and the whole combines registers ranging from everyday absurdity to a ghostly tone.
Volume 94 of the Biblioteca Mínima collection, in its first edition (2001). It was nominated for the Premi Llibreter for narrative in 2001.
For readers of short fiction in Catalan and black humor, and for those interested in contemporary literature in the Catalan language.
Joaquim Monzó i Gómez, also known as Quim Monzó, is a contemporary Spanish writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXpres. He was one of the members of the Catalan literary collective, Ofèlia Dracs. He lives in Barcelona and publishes regularly in La Vanguardia.
