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Mil Cretinos (2007)

by Quim Monzó(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8433971689 (ISBN13: 9788433971685)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Anagrama

review 1: no es lo mejor de monzó que he leído. hay un desgano en la segunda parte que no estoy seguro que al final funcione. me hace recordar cómo nunca puedo recordar de qué tratan sus cuentos, que sólo me divierten y parecen geniales. lo cual no es bueno ni malo. por algún lado en mi cerebro hay una zona monzó. en fin, vale la pena, sobre todo los cuentos "El amor es eterno", "Miro por la ventana" y "La llegada de la primavera"; en ellos encuentro al Monzó que más me gusta, el de "Frente al rey de Suecia" de Gasolina.
review 2: I've been thinking long and hard about why I loved this book so much. For a start, I really finished it weeks ago, but left myself a few of the really short stories at the end of it, just to drag out the experience a little longer. Now... more that it's finished, I want to start over again.I think it's the voice that really won me over, rather than the themes that most of the reviews I've read seem to focus on. There is something unique and truly special about the writing. The language is simple, matter of fact, and this makes it all the more curious when things don't quite add up, when each story is off just enough for it to stay with us long after we have finished reading it. (A man's parents, for example, are "on life's final slope". Perhaps this is an everyday expression in Catalan - in which case, it comes over perfectly - or perhaps it's just a really lovely choice of words, but either way nice, simple touches like these add up throughout any book, leaving us with the impression of something a little extraordinary.) I really liked Guadalajara by Quim Monzó, too, and now I'm off in search of anything else of Monzó's and translator Peter Bush's that I can get my hands on. less

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