Males companyies

This is a book about freedom and about truth. And now you can laugh. But do not protect yourselves in sarcastic laughter, allow yourself an impertinent laugh. Freedom and truth are two forms of necessary impertinence, when we have understood that we are not really free, nor will we ever escape error or deception. This is what these texts talk about, and they do so at the hands of various authors and characters who have made their impertinence a way of thinking. Georg Büchner introduces us to Danton and Robespierre conversing before the guillotine. Diderot and Sophie Volland write their love in an eternity without Heaven. Joaquim Jordà films his friends while they collectivize the Numax factory and Teresa de Ávila cuts onions in the kitchen while chatting with her inquisitor... El 'Torete' from Perros callems, Christa Leem, Ixiar Rozas or Santiago López Petit defy the night. Added to them are Albert Camus, conjuring lies, and the dead from Eduardo de Filippo's comedies, because everything is full of dead people. Among them and many more that run through these pages, the voice of my grandmother, Concepció Rubiés i Trias, stands out, who returns directly to us through the letters she wrote when she was eighteen years old and went into exile. All these voices organize a cacophony that is, for me, a party of intelligence, at a time when it has become very difficult to feel the joy of thinking. Bad companies are not chosen, but you can decide to follow them or not. They have always led me on the right path.