
El tiempo es un sueño pop. Vida y obra de Terenci Moix
RBA, 2012 | Time is a Pop Dream. The Life and Work of Terenci Moix
Awards
***Gaziel Award 2011 of Biographies and Memoirs***
Press
«A detailed and categorical invitation to understand an author who used his own immaturity as fuel to write valuable books full of rage, humour, sex and transgression.» Jordi Gracia, El País
‘A highly enjoyable and well-researched biography that translates into a passionate revision of established information and a rigorous reading of Moix’s work, in which his literary merits are also weighed up.’ J.M. Benítez Ariza, El Cultural de El Mundo
Synopsis
[Time is a Pop Dream. The Life and Work of Terenci Moix] Terenci Moix was one of the most-read and best-loved authors of his age. He started out as an enfant terrible who revolutionised the Catalan literary scene with the publication of seven books (novels with a fiery eroticism that also took a long, hard look at the Catalan middle classes, while documenting the ‘pop generation’ the author belonged to). However, he ended up as the author whose Egypt novels remained at the top of the best-seller lists for months. How did be move from being an avant-garde writer to a commercial one? What’s more, his life was full of extravagant, impassioned, almost implausible episodes and formidable cities: London in the Swinging Sixties, Paris before May 1968, and a Rome in which Moix counted Pasolini as a lover and people like Rafael Alberti and Elsa Morante as friends, and where he discovered that the true avant-garde was to be found in the classical world. Juan Bonilla searches for Moix in his books, in accounts from those who knew him, in the cities he spent time in, from his childhood as a spoilt little boy in the Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona to his later years when a smoking-related disease prevented him from taking more than ten steps in a row, and rehabilitates the figure of a writer who is in no way merely the super-seller he became, and whose power as a writer – obscured by his own spectacular life-story – remains as fresh as it was at the outset.
- Nadie contra nadie
- Totalidad sexual del cosmos
- La novela del buscador de libros
- Una manada de ñús
- Prohibido entrar sin pantalones
- Tanta gente sola
- La Costa del Sol en la hora pop
- Basado en hechos reales
- Je me souviens
- El estadio de mármol
- Los príncipes nubios
- La compañía de los solitarios
- La noche del Skylab
- Cansados de estar muertos
- Yo soy, yo eres, yo es
- Nadie conoce a nadie
- El que apaga la luz
MB Authors Non-fiction
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Joan BARRIL
- María BASTARÓS
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Najat El HACHMI
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Luna MIGUEL
- Bruno ORO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- David TRUEBA
- Enrique VILA-MATAS