by Quim Monzó · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433909640
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«El porqué de las cosas» is the short story collection by Quim Monzó, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (144 pages, in Spanish).
Stories in which Quim Monzó portrays extravagant characters dragged along by their own obsessions: couples bound by impossible pacts, fairy tales rewritten from the dark side, and bodies that react unexpectedly. Black humor and irony run through everyday situations that spiral into small disasters, with a dry, disillusioned gaze on human relationships and contemporary society.
It is number 154 in the «Narrativas hispánicas» collection; translated by Marcelo Cohen. The original Catalan is «El perquè de tot plegat». First edition in 1994.
For readers of contemporary short stories with black humor, irony and an incisive gaze on human relationships.
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.
