Quasi un miracle

Like Víctor Català, Antònia Vicens has chosen to observe and show life from the shadowy window of the house of the human spirit. In this aspect, that of terrible, beautiful cruelty, Vicens follows a long and fertile tradition in Catalan literature. All his stories gathered in a single volume and written with great richness and relevance in the language of the "southern mammoth of the island" -the expression is Bernat Vidal's- which Antònia Vicens has absorbed, has completely at hand and knows how to use so effectively in his writing. Without a doubt, this age-old language is his greatest contribution to our culture.