In his first year in the top flight, Jan Virgili (Vilassar de Mar, 2006) has made a name for himself among the league's most outstanding footballers. His speed and ability to unbalance defenses have earned him a place in Mallorca's starting eleven at just 19 years old. This Saturday, Barça will host Mallorca (4:15 pm), Virgili's team, where he will fulfill one of his dreams: playing at the Camp Nou. He won't be wearing the Barça jersey, but he wants to continue proving he's ready for La Liga. "He's matured as a player each season and has reached the point of understanding that he wanted to be a professional and truly reach his full potential," explains Àlex Accensi, who coached him in Nàstic's youth academy, his stepping stone before joining Barça. This ability to make the leap and adapt as if he'd been at the highest level for many years is precisely what stands out most about Virgili on the island. "What he's doing now in La Liga, he was already doing in his youth days. He's a player who needs to be in constant contact with the ball. When he was at Nàstic, you could already see that if he wanted it and had a bit of luck, he could become a professional footballer," Accensi acknowledges. In twenty matches with Mallorca – thirteen of them as a starter – he has provided four assists and won two penalties. However, he has yet to score.

This novel is another stone – and there are many already, thanks to the efforts of the Raig Verd publishing house – to build the universe Ursula K. Le Guin in Catalan and to understand the scope of the work, so varied, of one of the most important authors of Anglo-Saxon fantasy. Lavinia It doesn't belong to any of the famous cycles; it goes its own way, like its protagonist. It's more of a historical novel than a fantasy, and at the same time, it's an exercise in rewriting history. The Aeneid of Virgil. If in the twelve-book epic the character of Aeneas's wife has not a single line of dialogue and is always in the shadow of the Trojan warrior, Le Guin wanted to put her at the center and gave her the voice she lacked in the classical world. Part of the book's merit lies in this gesture. Originally published in 2009, it belongs to the wave of works that challenge the flatness of patriarchal tradition and, in a creative way that doesn't negate but enriches it, assert that history cannot have been written or starred in solely by men. In the epilogue she wrote at the end of the novel, the author declares her unconditional love for Virgil and says that what she intended was only "a meditative interpretation suggested by a minor character in his story, the unfolding of a clue."