This volume brings together three short novels by Catalan literatures great maverick and recluse each depicting a brutal abstract world where words are the only realityshifting between the erudite the archaic and the vulgar. Carrer Marsala which won prizes from the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunyaneither of which Bau bothered to acceptis a relentless monologue delivered by a paranoid hypochondriac obsessed with dental hygiene sex and his own squalid rooms in Barcelona. In