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Gabriel Ferrater (1922-1972) was a unique intellectual in the cultural wasteland of Francoism: for his lucid intelligence, his rejection of any form of dogmatism and his independence of criteria, as evidenced by the profound imprint he left on art criticism, the literary criticism and linguistics. He also excelled in the publishing world, where he worked for a long time as a translator, reader and editor. Ferrater is the first modern poet in post-war Catalan literature and the one who has most influenced subsequent literature. His manifest alcoholism and his suicide shortly before his fiftieth birthday ended up surrounding his figure with a legendary aura. Jordi Amat proposes us to get to the bottom of the character in this narrative biography that provides unpublished documentation and accurately portrays, without hiding the chiaroscuro, one of the most brilliant personalities of Catalan culture.