Acaçar la boira

The Segrià of the seventies was the Wild West of Catalonia. The gold rush of intensive agriculture and the revival of lignite mining coexisted with a rural mentality that had just jumped from the 19th century to Postmodernity. While Franco was dying, the cinemas were closing and the first seasonal fruit arrived, macro-discotheques like the Big Ben, of extravagant dimensions, emerged. The Catalan West had changed Carlism for the Village People. The philosopher Ferran Sáez Mateu was then a child who one day got lost trying to touch the fog, futilely chasing it through the fields of Granja d'Escarp. Based on this real anecdote, the author builds a story halfway between memorial essay, intellectual autobiography and educational novel. That impossible pursuit of the fog has continued with other tools such as philosophy, music or literature. The look of the child trying to understand a changing and confusing world gives meaning to his life path, and also to that of a time and a country.