"A son is like the sea. He shines before the houses, and a voice in his eyes the morning, the midday, the murky sunset, and the night, warm, violet, and crystallized like a glass of wine." Thus begins the moving and delicate monologue of the mother of Andreu Crous, protagonist ofHaceldamaHe recites to the chronicler who records his humble and unfortunate life after his death as a result of the train bombing perpetrated by his son. It is one of the most impressive and also one of the most controversial episodes in the second novel by Blai Bonet (Santanyí,1926 - Cala Figuera, 1997), published in Aymá Published in 1959 and now reissued, two decades after Ensiola's version (2005), by Club Editor, restoring the original text without the censorship, especially editorial, of the proofreaders of the time.

All lives have, in childhood or early youth, founding episodes that are not erased no matter how long ago they occurred. They are impactful and formative episodes that forge a personality because they help you define a conception of life and a vision of the world, to discover good and evil (to define the meaning of what is just and what is unjust), and also to become familiar with a perplexity pierced by anxieties and wonders that no longer exists. The Mallorcan poet and translator Miquel Àngel Llauger (Palma, 1963) has taken two of these episodes and transformed them into literature in his new book, Whale diptych.