"Literary genres don't exist. For me, either there is literature or there isn't. We know what painting, architecture, sculpture, and music are—things change after John Cage—but it's not the same with literature. What is literature, and where do we find it? I can recognize it immediately: literature. I find it very evocative: literature. It excites me." Antoni Marí I used these words in 2012 to introduce Book of Absences (Tusquets), a magnificent example of the cultivated, demanding, and dazzling literary endeavor of the author born in Ibiza in 1944, who died in Barcelona at the age of 81. Shortly afterward, he added: "Literature is about fixing and dispelling the darkness."

The death in Ibiza of Italian DJ Michele Noschese, known as Godzi, has caused shock in Italy, after his father filed a formal complaint in Spain accusing Civil Guard officers of homicide. The 35-year-old artist from Naples (southern Italy) died early Saturday morning on the Balearic island, where he had lived for a decade, due to cardiac arrest.