Vicenç Calafell (Fades) recommends a "very macabre" read.

BarcelonaThis year he has read a lot and he hates recommending just one book, but there was one that left its mark on him: I gave you eyes and you looked into the darkness, by Irene Solà. "It has a completely different style than what I have been reading lately," explains Vicenç Calafell, one of the three members of the musical group HadasThe novel tells the story of a lineage of women who live in a farmhouse and explores a world made of myths, superstitions, and fables.

"It's very macabre, written in a baroque and posthumanist style," says Calafell, who adds that, at the same time, the reading is extremely sensitive to all aspects of femininity. She really enjoyed the fables that appear throughout the novel and explains that the references to magic are completely applicable to today: such as the presence of the devil embodied in masculinity. The book is relevant today because it reflects on violence, abuse, and power relations: "I feel like it needs to be read now." Lately, family has been very much on her mind, the major theme that looms over the novel. Although she is from Esporles (Mallorca), she now lives in Barcelona: "I feel far away from my mother." She says that being at that stage in her life has surely made her connect even more with reading.

She came to Irene Solà because the media always linked her to Pol Guasch, a writer and poet whom Calafell already followed closely. The book, which she had already located, arrived as a birthday present. She's now reading. I sing and the mountain dances (2019), Solà's previous novel. She's loving it, but even so, she's going for whatever comes her way. She likes Solà because she's particularly drawn to her work with intertextuality and memory: "This woman has it all."