In outrageous, daring prose, Ventura Ametller tells the story of a young boy as he lives through the build-up to and outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Blending fact and fiction, legend and history, Summa Kaotica is a tour de force, an explosion of language and literature. It is one of the most outstanding, groundbreaking works of art ever written in the Catalan language. The book begins with the discovery of a tattered text belonging to the anti-historian Petter White O'Sullivan, and it is his text that the reader is reading. He tells the story of the creation of Anamorphus, formally Protomorphus, as he begins his life as a spermatozoon, then a foetus, before being born into the village of Poel. From here, we follow his life as he grows up and witnesses - often from a child's point of view - some of the most important events on the 20th Century.

About the Author

VENTURA AMETLLER (Pals, 1933 - Mataro, 2008), born Bonaventura Clavaguera, was a Catalan polymath. Although he worked professionally as a veterinarian, he was interested by almost all aspects of the arts and his writings alone stretch from poetry and essay to narrative and the novel. His 1986 novel Summa Kaotica is one of the pre-eminent works of Catalan surrealism.

DOUGLAS SUTTLE is a translator from Catalan to English.

Book Information
ISBN 9781913744212
Author Ventura Ametller
Format Paperback
Page Count 500
Imprint FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS
Publisher FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS
Weight(grams) 571g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 45mm