If we asked ChatGPT, with the vast amount of information it has about the writer Jordi Lara (Vic, 1968), to write us a story imitating his style, his imaginative soul, I highly doubt that it would give us a product as unique, and at the same time as complete, as this one. The Cat and the Stars It seems to mark a new turning point in the career of the author ofA machine for waking up birds at night (2008) and Mystic rabbit (2016). There is no celebration of memory like the one we found in the books cited, for example. Nor is there a reconstruction of a real person through their last days of life, as occurred in Six nights in August (2019) with Lluís Maria Xirinacs. Here it seems rather that the author wanted to make a vehement defense of fiction per seThe beginning might remind us of those desert-like, civilization-overwhelming settings found in some American authors like Cormac McCarthy. A tradition that also goes back to Faulkner.

July Garreta (Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 1875-1825) is one of the most important Catalan composers in the history of music. Heir to the great masters of European Romanticism, he composed around fifty works of symphonic and chamber music, always displaying an exquisite gift for melodic creativity and a great mastery of orchestration. Qualities that he also transferred to the eighty sardanas that he wrote, all of a high level and very original, key to raising the quality and richness of music for copla. This 2025 the Generalitat celebrates the Garreta Year, coinciding with the double anniversary of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth and the centenary of his death.