SPANISH & CATALAN LANGUAGE AUTHORS
NARRATIVA
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- Xuan BELLO
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- Juan BONILLA
- Dolors BORAU
- Javier CALVO
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Pedro FEIJOO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Antonio GARCÍA ÁNGEL
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Menchu GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Lourdes IGLESIAS
- Sebastià JOVANI
- Use LAHOZ
- Sonia LAREDO
- José Carlos LLOP
- Pedro MAIRAL
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Miguel MENA
- Cristina MORALES
- Fabiola MORALES
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Emma RIVEROLA
- Félix ROMEO
- Fernando ROYUELA
- Màrius SERRA
- Jordi SOLER
- Ramon SOLSONA
- Andrés TRAPIELLO
- David TRUEBA
- Ángela VALLVEY
- Ignacio VIDAL-FOLCH
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI
Nuria BARRIOS
El zoo sentimental
Alfaguara / 2000
(The Sentimental Zoo) Nuria Barrios opts for originality and her particular Bestiary, nine tales amongst which we find Genesis´ Workshop, The Red Panties or The Dam, is a lucid and ironic way to twist eternal subjects into new thanks to powerful animal contributions. In this way, a hamster that runs away between the legs of a couple of lovers knows, 2000 years later, the reason why Christ resurrected Lazarus and later condemns him to the torment of death. Only a swallow knows the secret of a Chinese girl who goes from being a nun to being a prostitute without leaving the convent and it´s interesting to find out the reason why an aquarium shark carries a Smith & Wesson caliber 38 around its waist.
(Spain, Alfaguara / Pocket, Punto de Lectura)
«Nuria Barrios has a very unnerving eye when it comes to describing the tangling of feelings, the racket and the fragility of the rational animal, which is sometimes irrational, trapped in the Gordian knot of the sex that governs and directs us.» El País
«Great dialogue, stylistic unity accomplished, poly-faceted descriptions that navigate from the interior of the human to the exterior and vice versa, and intelligent and original vicissitudes, animated with an exotic gallery of characters and highly personalized imagery.» Lola Beccaria
«Ingenious discoveries, audacious, humoristic associations and surprises in the development of the stories.» El Mundo
«A fresh and transparent prose.» El Periódico
«A singular voice, a unique point of view.» El Correo
«An unusual book, reflexive, strange for these times.» Diario 16
«Profoundly realistic and at the same time, decidedly lyrical.» El Norte de Castilla
«Its narrations flow potent, sure, full of a stoic calm and a beauty that’s almost derailing.» Canarias 7
«With an agile style, eroticism as the dominant note, and humour as her weapon, Nuria Barrios has written an excellent book.» Ideal