the first novel by Joan Buades presented
Crui. The torchbearers (EDICIONS AÏLLADES, 2016), The volume number 7 Anacrèptica collection of Narrative, It is presented on Monday, 18 April at 20:30 hours at the municipal library of Can Ventosa (Ibiza). The event will the author and the publisher, Ramon Mayol,. The presentation will be given by Professor Xavi Ribas Tur, “Xinxó”.
Albert Leuven, 95 years, Belgian millionaire and philanthropist who lives in Mallorca, convenes a farewell party life ...
Here you have, in the winter of its existence. A creative and be thrust: Who but someone exceptional would have thought, to turn 95 years, to convene a party goodbye to family and to friends from a paradise of Mallorca?
But nine decades have given to much. An unexpected event will open a slot in the final stretch and enter a maze full of triumphs and inland cliffs will reveal the many lives that lie beneath the path of one man: Albert Leuven.
The descent into personal hells will parading per forgotten old maps of Europe and we will contact rather curious characters and characters. Albert Leuven confronts us with the idea of whether absolute Evil exists but its concentric també shadow fascinate us and, Sometimes, We were surprised because we have sympathy. He's smart, worship, It has word, a home of world, go, it will not leave anyone indifferent…
The prologue of the novel is Michelangelo Llauger:
Crui. The torchbearers talks about issues that have always been in the focus of the prolific research activity Joan Buades, as the boom Balearic tourism and its ties with the Francoist elites, or relationships between these tourism businesses and large gear mafioso international finance.
The protagonist of these pages is, In someway, an idealist, or maybe we should say the back of an idealist. It is a cultivated man, and his vision of the world is indebted to Herder, Schiller, Nietzsche and Heidegger. O, rather, in a certain way to read: one of the merits of the author is being immersed in a lucid philosophical justification macabra Brutality.
