ELS MURS INVISIBLES

«I can't respond. I notice somebody's got their arms around me, and unceremoniously I shake them off. Suddenly, all these people who five minutes ago I considered my friends seem like strangers. They don't know where I come from or the world I belong to.»

On the night of March 12th, 2004, sitting in a bar in Barcelona with his friends from the Philosophy department, Ramon receives a message that nobody would wish to receive. With it begins a race against the inevitable. With its autobiographical edge, this book is simultaneously the chronicle of a death foretold, a story about entering adulthood and a hymn to friendship. It is also a homage to a world that springs up on the margins and to relationships forged outside the prevailing conventions in a city as conservative as Vic. Precise and delicate, movingly full of held-back emotion, Els murs invisibles, in short, recounts an episode that will leave an indelible mark on its protagonist's life. Ramon Mas is a Catalan writer, musician and publisher, co-founder of the magazine and publishing house Males Herbes. He is the author of the book of poems Òsties (AdiA edicions, 2017) and a collection of stories and articles scattered among fanzines, magazines and anthologies. He teaches the seminar "Clàssics fora del cànon" (on non-realist Catalan literature) at Escola Bloom, and has made the selection and the foreword of the book Savis, bojos i difunts. El conte decadentista a Catalunya entre el 1895 i el 1930 (Males Herbes, 2018). His novels include Crònica d'un delicte menor (L'Albí, 2012), Mentre el món explota - under the pseudonym Roderic Mestres (Males Herbes, 2014), Afores (Edicions de 1984, 2017), Estigmes (Edicions de 1984, 2019) and L'endemà de la teràpia (Edicions de 1984, 2020). His most recent work is the striking Els murs invisibles (L'Altra, 2024).