by Quim Monzó · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433909930
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«Gasolina» is the novel by Quim Monzó, published by Editorial Anagrama in 1995, in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Set in an abstract New York, the story follows Heribert, a painter at the height of fame who loses the desire to paint and watches his wife and gallerist, Helena, cheat on him with a novice painter. The protagonist's crisis turns him into a spectacle of futility within the art scene.
It is the Spanish translation of the original Catalan novel «Benzina». It is part of the Narrativas hispánicas collection, where it occupies number 183.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Spanish fiction who want to discover one of Quim Monzó's key novels.
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.
