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Eduardo Mendoza

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Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (born 11 January 1943 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish novelist.

Garriga studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York City between 1973 and 1982, working as interpreter for the United Nations, and then tried to become a lawyer and then he realized that he wanted to be a writer. He maintained an intense relationship with novelists Juan Benet and Juan García Hortelano, poet Pere Gimferrer and writer (and neighbour) Félix de Azúa. He currently lives in London.

In 1975, Garriga published his very successful first novel, La Verdad sobre el Caso Savolta (The Truth About the Savolta Case), where he shows his ability to use different resources and styles. The novel is considered a precursor to the social change in the Spanish post-Franco society and the first novel of the transition to democracy. He describes the union fights at the beginning of the 20th century, showing the social, cultural and economic conditions of workers in Barcelona by that time. A year later he was awarded the Critics Prize. His most acclaimed novel is probably La Ciudad de los Prodigios (The City of Marvels, 1986), about the social and urban evolution of Barcelona between the Universal Expositions of 1888 and 1929. It was film adapted by Mario Camus in 1999. In 1992, he published the novel, El Año del Diluvio (The Year of the Flood), which tells of the inner conflicts faced by Sister Consuelo after she meets and falls in love with Augusto Aixelâ, with very evocative descriptions of the post-civil war prevailing deprivations in Spain by that time. In 1996, he published his third major Barcelona-related novel, this time set in the 1940s, Una Comedia Ligera (A Light Comedy).

Also within Mendoza's work stands the saga of the mad detective, a peculiar character, a nameless accidental-detective locked up in a mental hospital. The first of these novels, El Misterio de la Cripta Embrujada (The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt, 1979) is a parody with hilarious moments mixing hard-boiled genre with Gothic narrative. In the second novel of the saga, El Laberinto de las Aceitunas (The Olive Labyrinth, 1982), Mendoza confirms his talent as parodist; the novel stands as one of his most successful works. The third novel of the saga, La Aventura del Tocador de Señoras (The Adventure of the Ladies' Dressing Table), and the fourth one, El Enredo de la Bolsa y la Vida (The Money and the Life Muddle), were published in 2001 and 2012, respectively. The 5th novel was released in 2015 under the title of El Secreto de la Modelo Extraviada (The Secret of the Missing Model) with great success.

The Spanish newspaper El País published two of his novels in instalments, Sin Noticias de Gurb (No Word from Gurb, 1990) and El Último Trayecto de Horacio Dos (The Last Journey of Horatio Dos, 2001), both of them science fiction comedy novels.

In 1993 appeared his first play, Restauració (Restoration), written in Catalan and later translated into Spanish by Mendoza himself. This first theatrical piece was followed by two other titles that the three of them were published together in 2017. ...

Source: Article "Eduardo Mendoza Garriga" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Eduardo Mendoza, né le 11 janvier 1943 à Barcelone, est un écrivain espagnol, considéré comme l'auteur le plus représentatif de sa génération. Il remporte le Prix Cervantes en 2016.

Fils de magistrat, il suit sa scolarité dans un collège tenu par les frères Maristes. Après des études de droit, il étudie la sociologie à Londres entre 1966 et 1967. Il travaille comme avocat, mais en 1973 il part pour New York où il est traducteur à l'ONU.

Son premier roman paraît peu avant la mort de Franco et reçoit le Prix de la Critique. Centré sur la répression des anarchistes en Catalogne dans les années 1910, La Vérité sur l'affaire Savolta est publiée en 1975. La parution de ce roman représente un important changement dans l'art narratif espagnol: un retour à une écriture plus traditionnelle, s'éloignant de la littérature expérimentale.

Dans Le Mystère de la crypte ensorcelée (1979), le héros, sorte de clochard qui n'a peur de rien, indic, psychopathe, inventif et grand baratineur, sort d'un hôpital psychiatrique pour effectuer une enquête demandée par le policier qui l'a fait enfermer quelques années plus tôt après l'avoir tabassé. Le détective improvisé mène son travail consciencieusement en interrogeant des personnages aussi déjantés que lui-même. Mendoza livre un roman policier parodique et burlesque, avec un grand sens du gag, qui est en même temps une féroce critique de l'ère «prépostfranquiste».

La Ville des prodiges, où la ville de Barcelone tient un rôle important, est célébré comme un chef-d'œuvre dès sa sortie en 1986. Mario Camus l'adapte au cinéma en 1999.

On retrouve son sens du burlesque, avec des gags en rafale, dans un roman prépublié dans El País en 1990, Sans nouvelles de Gurb, sur un extraterrestre perdu dans Barcelone cherchant un autre extraterrestre nommé Gurb à l'apparence de la chanteuse Madonna.

Le Dernier Voyage d'Horacio II, un roman de science-fiction humoristique, paraît également dans El País en 2001.

En 1995 il reçoit la Creu de Sant Jordi, distinction décernée par la Generalitat de Catalogne.

À partir de 1995, il donne des cours de traduction à l'université Pompeu Fabra de Barcelone.

Il reçoit le prix Franz Kafka 2015.

Le 30 novembre 2016, il reçoit le prestigieux prix Cervantès pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.

Source: Article "Eduardo Mendoza" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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