El joven Porcel

Between 1960 and 1970 the young Baltasar Porcel starred in an unprecedented meteoric rise in the cultural world of Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain. He has arrived in the city at the age of twenty-three, from Mallorca, and he soon manages to open the main doors of journalism and society for him. Bright and seductive, fierce and controversial, he becomes the star signature of La Vanguardia and ABC. His great interviews for Destino and Serra d'Or magazines make him a celebrity, and as a novelist he wins top awards. He maintains fruitful and complex relationships with great figures such as Llorenç Villalonga, Josep Pla and Camilo José Cela. This book about the young Porcel tells a story of personal growth and success. It provides a portrait of the cultural and political atmosphere of the busy 1960s. And it also reflects the revolutionary upheaval that existed at the international level at that time.