The screams, a novel with which Víctor Recort (Sant Boi de Llobregat, 1990) has won the latest Documenta award -shared ex aequo with Irene Zurrón—, begins with a man getting into an elevator that is one of those "modernist gems that the City Council has classified as a heritage asset of the city." On the floor where the man, Eloi, is going, he is met by Milan, a veteran presenter of a trashy TV show he had collaborated on years ago, Coco, another fellow talk show host, and the corpse of a dead girl, "the tomato girl." The story progresses in two time periods: the countdown to get rid of that lifeless body and the memory of the last summer Eloi spent with his wife and two children.

American author Kay Hymowitz wrote the essay Manning up In 2011, Hymowitz describes a new stage of life, pre-adulthood, a period between adolescence and adulthood, which she links to prolonged education, difficulty accessing credit, postponing family formation, and the digital leisure culture. Hymowitz describes how this new phenomenon has had a more negative impact on men, since women have a clearer biological clock, which warns us when it's time for pre-adulthood to end. It should not be forgotten that access to a well-paid job or owning a home have become undertakings worthy of Frodo Saquet and the Fellowship of the Ring. Hymowitz then argues that, without a clear life plan, many young men easily become trapped in a "man-creature" culture: they enjoy the privileges of adulthood (sex, consumption, freedom of movement) but avoid the obligations (own finances, family, caregiving).

Few literary awards can boast a 45-year history like Documenta. "Our goal continues to be to find voices that are forward-looking proposals to enrich the Catalan literary scene," says Èric del Arco, who has been a member of the the Documenta bookstore promotes the award, along with La Otra Editorial. This year, and unintentionally, the jury ended up awarding two works instead of one: The screams, second novel by Víctor Recort, and A black cat in the garden, Irene Zurrón's short story debut.