by Xavier Rubert de Ventós · Destino CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423320349
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«El cortesà i el seu fantasma» is the novel by Xavier Rubert de Ventós, published by Destino CAT in paperback (244 pages, in Catalan).
P., a professor who arrives at the Cortes in the 1980s, tries to adapt to politics, convinced that knowledge is a form of contagion. With trips to China and the Pentagon, he dialogues with his ghost between enthusiasm and tedium. Irony and unease draw a radiography of the author's political, intellectual and personal life.
Published in March 1991, it was awarded the Premi Josep Pla 1991 and belongs to the L'Àncora collection, number 41.
For readers of contemporary fiction in Catalan seeking an ironic and critical look at political and intellectual life.
Xavier Rubert de Ventós was a Catalan philosopher, writer and politician.
