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Quim Monzo. Guadalajara. Barcelona. Quaderns Crema. 1996. 197 pages. ISBN 847727-166X.
Quim Monzo has given intense thought to all the ways human beings can fail to communicate and to all the ways he can communicate that failure. His characters live their lives alone or with families to whom they cannot convey the ideas they most want to share. Their isolation is not the result of a psychological defect or trauma but rather is in the very nature of human existence.
Monzo is interested not in creating nuanced characterizations but instead in giving human beings (in Guadalajara, always men) a strategy for dealing with existence and asking...