The Queen's Caprice: Stories
By Jean Echenoz
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The Queen’s Capriceseven new stories presented in English for the first timereveals Echenoz at the height of his talents. The author takes us on a journey across radically different places and landscapes, giving free rein to a terrific sense of humor tinged with existential mischief" (L’Express). The title story explores a tiny corner of the French countryside; Nelson” offers a brilliant miniaturist portrait of the hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; Babylon” sketches the ancient city of Mesopotamia, based on trace descriptions from Herodotus; and other stories visit the forests of England, the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, Tampa Bay, and the interior of a submarine. Amid the thrill and allure of this voyage of words, again and again we pause to savor the richness of Echenoz’s startling, crystalline observations” (Lydia Davis).
Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz (Orange, 1948) ha publicado en Anagrama trece novelas: El meridiano de Greenwich (Premio Fénéon), Cherokee (Premio Médicis), La aventura malaya, Lago (Premio Europa), Nosotros tres, Rubias peligrosas (Premio Novembre), Me voy (Premio Goncourt), Al piano, Ravel (premios Aristeion y Mauriac), Correr, Relámpagos, 14 y Enviada especial, así como el volumen de relatos Capricho de la reina. En 1988 recibió el Premio Gutenberg como «la mayor esperanza de las letras francesas». Su carrera posterior confirmó los pronósticos, y con Me voy consiguió un triunfo arrollador. Ravel también fue muy aplaudido: «No es ninguna novela histórica. Mucho menos una biografía. Y ahí radica el interés de este espléndido libro que consigue dar a los géneros literarios un nuevo alcance» (Jacinta Cremades, El Mundo). Correr ha sido su libro más leído: «Hipnótica. Ha descrito la vida de Zátopek como la de un héroe trágico del siglo XX» (Miquel Molina, La Vanguardia); «Nos reencontramos con la ya clásica voz narrativa de Echenoz, irónica, divertidísima, y tan cercana que a ratos parece oral... Está escribiendo mejor que nunca» (Nadal Suau, El Mundo). Relámpagos «devuelve a la vida al genial inventor de la radio, los rayos X, el mando a distancia y el mismísimo internet» (Laura Fernández, El Mundo). La acogida de 14 fue deslumbrante: «Una obra maestra de noventa páginas» (Tino Pertierra, La Nueva España). Capricho de la reina, por su parte, «es una caja de siete bombones: prueben uno y acabarán en un santiamén con la caja entera» (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El País), y en Enviada especial destaca «el ritmo y la gracia de la prosa, una mezcla cada vez más afinada de jovialidad y soltura» (Graziela Speranza, Télam).
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