by Màrius Serra · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422690184
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Verbalia» is Màrius Serra's essay on wordplay, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (602 pages, in Spanish).
Màrius Serra explores wordplay and its links with enigma, Kabbalah, the Baroque and pastimes. He documents ludolinguistic texts in five languages, with examples such as multi-acrostic labyrinths, magic squares, anagrams and palindromes, and shows that their mechanisms are universal even though the games are untranslatable.
In 2001 Verbalia received the Premi Lletra d'Or, the Premi Octavi Pellissa and the Premi Crítica Serra d'Or d'Estudis literaris.
It will appeal to those who enjoy language, linguistics and ingenious word games.
Màrius Serra i Roig is a Spanish writer, journalist, translator and television maker.
