Miquel de Palol – författare

As if Borges wrote The DecameronDuring an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a luxurious mansion in the mountains where he is put up, along with other guests, awaiting the outcome of the conflict. For the following seven days the residents of the mansion spend their spare time reading and taking walks , and, above all, telling stories to each other. The narrators (most of whom belong to the generation thirty years older than the hero's) are eight in number, and the stories they tell can be taken as autonomous ones, although, as the novel advances, it may soon be that when juxtaposed, they do indeed weave a web of intrigue about a family of bankers—a web that gradually involves some of the guests in the mansion.

As if Borges wrote The Decameron

During an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a luxurious mansion in the mountains where he is put up, along with other guests, awaiting the outcome of the conflict. For the following seven days the residents of the mansion spend their spare time reading and taking walks , and, above all, telling stories to each other. The narrators (most of whom belong to the generation thirty years older than the hero''s) are eight in number, and the stories they tell can be taken as autonomous ones, although, as the novel advances, it may soon be that when juxtaposed, they do indeed weave a web of intrigue about a family of bankers—a web that gradually involves some of the guests in the mansion.

El protagonista, un individu aspriu i misantrop, arriba a la conclusió que ha de matar l''imbècil del seu veí, en Martí Pelegós. Fa poc que es coneixen perquè el nostre home s''acaba de mudar a un pis on l''anterior llogater ha mort enigmàticament. Entre copes i aventures sentimentals compartides, es va ordint una falsa amistat on l''odi s''incrementa a mesura que el pla d''homicidi avança. El lector és testimoni de les disquisicions ètiques, estètiques i metafísiques que comporta l''assassinat, i de com per al protagonista és una veritable sortida de la vulgaritat (a vegades còmica, a vegades tragicòmica) present en tots els àmbits de la seva vida.Novel·la càustica i satírica sobre les raons que guien la nostra existència, sobre com interpretem la realitat i sobre com construïm la nostra identitat, Què! només podia sortir de la ploma de Miquel de Palol, un dels autors més originals i admirats de la literatura catalana actual.