It's unusual for a book presentation in Girona to be packed to the rafters—crosses would be made with a maximum of five people—despite being held in an auditorium. It's even more unusual for dozens of people to gather outside. But it's also unusual for a former village high school principal, teacher, art critic, cultural manager, and doctor in art history for a thesis on fantasy art to be the Spanish government's sub-delegate in Girona and present a book about a Norwegian explorer. Pere Parramon (Girona, 1977) has just published Fridtjof Nansen. Portraits, prints (SD Edicions), a short essay with a strong poetic vocation that explores, through various images and drawings of this 1922 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the universal vocation of this figure. A book born from Parramon's "love affair" with this "man of the past." universalisBut, far from wanting to "idealize" or "glorify" Fridtjof Nansen (Norway, 1860-1930), what he seeks above all is to present him as a "human being" to learn from his legacy.