Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975–2018): Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics

Guillem Colom-Montero

Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975–2018)
Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics

Guillem Colom-Montero

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Quim Monzó (1952-), Catalan writer

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 45

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26 July 2021 • 226pp

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Quim Monzó (born Barcelona, 1952) is considered Catalonia’s most influential contemporary author, his work studied as a catalyst for the modernization of Catalan culture after General Franco’s death in 1975. Analysing Quim Monzó’s trajectory from countercultural artist in 1970s Barcelona to celebrity intellectual in the present day, Colom-Montero argues that Monzó’s work encapsulates many of the cultural, aesthetic and political tensions in post-Francoist Catalonia. Offering first-time English-language analyses of Monzó’s multifaceted artistic trajectory (including political cartoons, translations, journalistic writing, media collaborations and social media persona) as well as new close readings of some of his better-known literary texts, Colom-Montero maps the paradigmatic cultural shifts that have characterized the transition from late Francoist to autonomous and post-referendum Catalonia. At a time of deepening divisions between Catalonia and Spain, in this book Monzó emerges as an author and public intellectual aiming to build a Catalan politico-cultural sphere different from and opposed to that of Spain.

Guillem Colom-Montero is a Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Glasgow.

See news item: Quim Monzo at Estudios Ibéricos (3 December 2022)
and: Quim Monzó in Birmingham (12 June 2022)
and: Big News in the Balearics (9 September 2021)
and: Monzonià! An interview with Guillem Colom-Montero (20 August 2021)

Reviews:

‘Con una prosa nítida que nada tiene que ver con la infumable y obtusa jerga académica de tantos textos universitarios, Colom aborda el personaje, la obra y la trayectoria de Monzó de un modo integral, desde sus inicios como enfant terrible contracultural que actuaba desde los márgenes del sistema cultural hasta su posición de centralidad en el panorama cultural y mediático y en el canon literario catalán... Lean el libro de Guillem Colom sobre Quim Monzó, un hombre que — en esto tampoco ho cambiado nada en cinco décadas — siempre se ha tomado muy en serio esto de escribir y muy burlonamente lo de ser escritor.’ — Pere Antoni Pons, Última Hora 19 December 2021
‘Confessa que sempre ha llegit Quim Monzó, que sempre l’ha fascinat, però en cap cas amaga que algunes de les contradiccions de l’escriptor català li produïen tensió.’ — Cristina Ros, Ara interview, 5 January 2022
‘Given the importance (cultural, social and political) that Monzó has in current Catalan culture, we must celebrate the publication of a study as fundamental as the one we are reviewing... Conceived as a study of Quim Monzó’s literary and cultural trajectory, Guillem Colom-Montero’s monograph offers a broad frieze of Catalan culture between 1975 and 2018, linking it to the debates, anxieties and tensions generated by the development of counterculture, libertarian thought and postmodernity. In this way, much of the interest and value of the book – which is highly readable, well-documented and rich – is due to its focus as an interdisciplinary cultural study.’ — Maria Dasca, International Journal of Iberian Studies 35.1, 1 March 2022, 96-98 (full text online)
‘El llibre s’inicia, l’any 2018, amb la distinció que Òmnium Cultural feia a l’escriptor català atorgant-li el premi d’Honor de les Lletres Catalanes. La captació d’aquell moment i el repàs del discurs que Monzó va fer durant la gala, on vinculava passat i present de la història de la repressió i l’exili a Catalunya, tenint en compte que el president de l’entitat, Jordi Cuixart, ja estava empresonat, produeixen un efecte de narrativa circular, d’obra rodona, que s’obre i es tanca tan coherentment, que ja des del principi hom pot copsar la direcció de les tesis de Colom-Montero... El fet que el llibre recuperi gran part de l’obra oblidada de Monzó posa en evidència els efectes mateixos de la normalització sobre el camp d’estudis culturals i literaris català pràcticament fins a l’actualitat. I alhora, permet connectar les tesis de Colom-Montero amb altres treballs crítics d’àmbit hispànic (Martínez 2012; Delgado 2014) que també han revisat qüestions relacionades amb la cultura en general, i les seves relacions a’ — Júlia Ojeda Caba, Caplletra 72, 2022, 315-19

Contents:

1-28	Introduction Quim Monzó, 1975–2018: From Counterculture To the Catalan Canon Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.5	Cite
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29-53	Chapter 1 Moving Beyond Resistencialisme Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.6	Cite
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54-80	Chapter 2 Political Cartooning During the Spanish Transition Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.7	Cite
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81-103	Chapter 3 An Authoritative Cultural Mediator Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.8	Cite
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104-125	Chapter 4 the Influence of American Libertarianism Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.9	Cite
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126-145	Chapter 5 Pornographic Imagery and Hegemonic Masculinity in Crisis Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.10	Cite
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146-170	Chapter 6 A Postmodern Intellectual and A Celebrity Author Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.11	Cite
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171-184	Afterword 2010–2020: Ten Years That Shook Catalonia Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.12	Cite
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185-204	Works Cited Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.13	Cite
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205-212	INDEX Guillem Colom-Montero doi:10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr4x.14	Cite
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Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975–2018)Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics

Guillem Colom-Montero

Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975–2018)
Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics