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Viatge d'hivern
Rights sold:
  • French Actes Sud
  • Italian La Nuova Frontiera
  • Polish Wydawnictwo Marginesy
  • Spanish Destino
  • Previously published in: English Swan Isle Press

Viatge d'hivern / Winter Journey

Short stories and novellas , 2000

Proa

Literature in Catalan

With this highly original collection of short stories, Catalonian writer Jaume Cabré takes his place among the masters of the form. In Winter Journey, the reader encounters disparate and often desperate characters —pianist, cuckold, whore, organ builder, rabbi, priest, scholar, thief, hitman, madman, Holocaust survivor, oligarch, failed artist— who challenge notions about will, morality, and “the riddle of existence.” This is not a selection of individual stories, but a singularly brilliant and enigmatic narrative, novelistic in its approach, with mysterious connections linking characters, objects, and ideas across time and place. The text takes the form of a Schubertian musical progression in prose, a philosophical mystery moving freely through a labyrinth of centuries and cities, historical and contemporary. 

Richly allusive with its themes and motifs of music and art, Winter Journey will continue to provoke questions long after the reader has closed the book.

Novel

Consumits pel foc, 2021
Jo confesso, 2011
Les veus del Pamano, 2004
L'ombra de l'eunuc, 1996
Senyoria, 1991
Fra Junoy o l'agonia dels sons, 1984
La teranyina, 1984
El mirall i l'ombra, 1980
Carn d'olla, 1978

Short stories and novellas

Quan arriba la penombra, 2017
L'emigrant, 2001
Viatge d'hivern, 2000
Llibre de preludis, 1985
Toquen a morts, 1977
Faules de mal desar, 1974

Theatre

Pluja seca. Carta del Papa a la reina Maria, 2001

Non-fiction

Tres assaigs, 2019
Les incerteses, 2015
La matèria de l'esperit, 2005
El sentit de la ficció. Itinerari privat, 1999

Books for children and young readers

L'Ariadna i la lluna pruna, 2020
La Mariona i la menjanits, 2017
En Pere i el bosc, 2015
L'any del Blauet, 1999
L'home de Sau, 1984
La història que en Roc Pons no coneixia, 1980
Galceran, l'heroi de la guerra negra, 1978

Anthology / Selection

Baix continu, 2007

Other genres

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