The non-existent evil is a psychological and introspective work by the Italian writer Giulia Caminito (Rome, 1988). After winning the Campiello with an equally scathing and complex work, The lake water is never sweet (L’Altra, 2022), the author once again reveals herself as a keen but ruthless observer of society and the hidden and perverse mechanisms that silently permeate it. It is a slow infiltration, a discomfort that does not explode but festers. And it is here that the title becomes a trap: evil is not only present, but it manifests itself in its most contemporary form, the one we cannot name.

Lately, a narrative has been circulating in discussions and some books that contrasts those born during the post-war population boom with the newer generations. According to this discourse, the well-being of the former is mortgaging or conditioning the future of the latter. But this idea, rather than being the result of rigorous analysis, is a simplistic fallacy that obscures the real causes of current inequalities and tensions, which are certainly worrying.

Philosopher and novelist Arià Paco (Igualada, 1993) has found in fiction the medium to explore the relationships of his generation. After receiving the Roc Boronat Award in 2022 for Coward, old woman, so wild (Amsterdam), the writer has been awarded this year with the 10th Anagrama Books for his third novel, Game theory, which traces how a Catalan millennium lives and thinks – and overthinks – guilt and desire.