Les edats de l'home (Keret Edgar)

A new anthology of Etgar Keret's stories translated into Catalan

A new anthology translated, and prologue, into Catalan by Paul Sánchez has already arrived in bookstores Keighley from the stories of the well-known and renowned Israeli writer Etgar Keret (Tel Aviv, 1967).

Keret has written six volumes of stories translated into more than forty languages, comics, narratives children's books, television scripts and has directed a film. His stories have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, The Guardian, among other publications. The year 2013 goes appear in Catalan the volume of stories Suddenly there is a knock at the door (Proa). The Second Periphery published the memoir Seven years of fullness in 2022.

The Ages of Man is an anthology of his best fiction stories from 1992 to 2002, with the exception of the story "No ho facis!", from the book Fly Already, published in 2019. The stories chosen in this anthology show the course of a man's entire life typically keretian. The obsessions and insecurities that are born in the child, that evolve in him young and flourish in the adult man. The Keretian man is Israeli, so to his obsessions to it must be added the neuroses and foundational traumas of a country immersed in one eternal conflict The Keretian man often takes refuge in the most hilarious unreality when things go wrong bad data Avoid sinking into the undercurrent of violence by using a lot of humor black And he talks like a bitch, too. And it's irreverent, hilarious, moody and heartwarming.

Translation from Hebrew to Catalan: Paul Sánchez Keighley

Editorial: The second periphery

Year of publication: 2024