Salvador Espriu was born in 1913. A member of the so-called generation of 36those who were in their twenties at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil WarEspriu became a voluntary exile in his own land. Writing in a forbidden language, hyperconscious o...
One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of thirty-four short stories in which the twists and ...