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Victor Catal was the pseudonym of the novelist and short story writer, Caterina Albert (1869-1966). Her early works-especially Solitude-were representative of the Modernist movement in Spain and reflected her interest in writing about rural settings. As trends changed, she incorporated more elements of cinema and civic concern into her writings, most notably in A Film, first published in Catalan 1926. Peter Bush is an award-winning translator who lives in Barcelona. His translations include Juan Goytisolo's Njar Country, Teresa Solana's A Shortcut to Paradise, Alain Badiou's In Praise of Love, Josep Pla's The Gray Notebook, and several collections by Quim Monz, among many others.
Praise for Víctor Català ""The novel's folk tales, with their scent of cruelty, linger in the mind, as do the icy, unforgiving vistas below . . . It's this sense of place that gives Solitude its power.""--New York Times ""The seamless translation faithfully illuminates the lucid, brilliant prose of this Catalan author.""--Publishers Weekly on Solitude ""I swallowed the words as if swallowing the mighty, varied, inextinguishable sound of a solo like Duke Ellington's; and on every page I was tempted to stop, to laugh heartily with all my throat and clap. I had never read anything in Catalan that made me so euphoric.""--Maria Bohigas ""From a perfectly assumed cultural position, with a clear literary consciousness and challenging boldness (the dignification of popular cultural consumption), Víctor Català offers us a mature work, which in his time could not be appreciated.""--Lluís Busquets, Diari de Girona
