Oprym The month of Aban, which faces I found the joke of the tree going back three generations of families — Salapreda and Buron —, but with all the subtitle — “An Old-Fashioned Story” —, I don’t really see it empowering to imagine up to 800 pages that lie ahead in the long run, etc. The small print of the Minis will turn into a double-length novel, and they will encounter the narration of vicissitudes, continuations, ideas, arguments, and contradictions of certain characters that have led to the pleasure of formulating the fundamental and eternal question always associated with us. Storyline: What will happen to the heroes? The reason for this mistrust is that the authorThe month of Aban, which faces Miquel de Ballol (Barcelona, 1953), relating the icebergs that thicken on the edges of their main peaks, said –shoes (2023), Testimony of Alcestis (2009), Troyacord (2001) The jars set Crepuscles (1989) It is difficult for us to be willing to do so, knowing that among the many aims and interests of the author, he does not have the will to keep us in his areas, but it is not important that he expels us on the slightest occasion when there is no need to suspend the necessary interest to the end of his talk.
It is not easy to give us an idea of the overall dense plotThe month of Aban, which faces. Among the due industrialists who are the heroes – it may be convenient to call them the technical oligarchs -, they know that since the immediate death of the founding of their empires, they seemed to have proposed the opposite of the advice given the previous month by the patriarch of another family of companies, Buddenbrock, who said to his companion: “Fill in my details, so that you may even go about your business during the day, but I will take your names and leave you to sleep peacefully at night.” You know, at the same time, at the same time: the chronological arc runs from 1979 to the end of 2019, and the location is Catalonia that has been transformed into a paradigmatic center of the evils of avui —de tots — and cultural and moral madness that is roiling, undermining and destroying civilisation: the heartbreaking diagnosis of the present that Miquel de Ballol offers is so terrifying that I have a feeling that can never end The month of Aban, which faces Because free will takes advantage of it at hand. I also do not know that here I have all gone to hell in molten facts, where plots with perfect conditions and conditions have multiplied, just as in those titles that were previously broadcast, with their confusion and multiplicity of meanings ceased, plots of extreme clarity or raiding splendor, definite or grotesque deformities, liveliness or comic embodiment, imaginative embodiment. Or the shameless contradictions, the shameless intrigues and hackneyed plots, the pride in sensual dissonances, with an infinite number of major and minor characters that complement and intersect with the novel, without feeling completely lost, always feeling like a bad story to tell. I believe that Miquel de Ballol activates the consciousness of the whole world by incorporating dialogues and digressions that no one with essays on musicology, architecture, economic and political practice, esotericism, numerology, tonality, and literature can understand. I’m on the hunt for some clues to tell a story about the brutal ambition of…The month of Aban, which faces.
Lorelei Salabreda, the novel’s main protagonist, has said that he believes he “must be a completely realistic artist”, and continues: “Life does not pass by a classical, clear and adequate serial relationship (…) on the only interruptions of the ellipse. The foreground, the free repetition, the contradictions, the incoherence, the hesitations, the recording of the canvis, the buits, the oblits, the inner thoughts, the accumulation of fets and unconnected things, the tidis, the waste, the filth in general.” In the other group of practitioners of “subject, verb, predicate, meaning” — “així no parla ningú” —, Miquel de Palol s’alinea al costat dels “discursos dels illabets”, “plens de subordinades, grammatical salts, exaggerations, ellipses, incomplete phrases that feel they have lost feeling, anacoluts and metafores”: “What has been written is a pass for every alambinat i elitista, i él veritable realista.” Are you, Miquel de Ballol, a true realist? And so I stay at the end of the novel and ask the question that they formulate in the future, after each scene, in the ceiling of s’encaminaran els heroes, which passes at every moment, over each other, in the mind of someone else.
The month of Aban, which faces
Mikel De Balol
Navona, 2025
793 pages. 30 euros