"Like a happy shipwrecked man, / in October '26, / on the thirtieth, Ramon arrives in the world, / in Barcelona. / Without making much fuss. He is the ninth child." This is how the ballad dedicated by Joan Vilamala to Ramon Folch i Camarasa (1926-2019) begins, one of the key authors of the literary revival in Catalan that started in the late 1950s, alongside Manuel de Pedrolo, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, and Josep Maria Espinàs.