Collection_ Cicuta 30 by La Breu Edicions

Two artists faced in a temporary retreat, Francis Picabia and Benet Rossell, revive the figure of the poet Berta Epstein. Berta, treated as a fictional character in Joan Vigó’s second novel ( Vides porcer , LaBreu, 2021), was an avant-garde poet who mysteriously disappeared in Paris in 1923 when she was only twenty-four years old. Picabia and Rossell, sentimental cartographers, flâneurs of modern life and affected by bohemia, honor the magnetic presence of Berta Epstein.

Les plages del clatell tells not only the biography of Epstein, but also the discovery of the only poems that are preserved, present in this volume in the form of an insert poem. A unique investigation full of unlikely connections and unexpected coincidences. A game of mirrors where art and life are linked in a collage that beats beyond eras and distances. Vigó resurrects mysteries and links lived episodes, almost epic: a song to life.

Joan Vigó Arnau (Barcelona, ​​1964). He has published the poetry books Pastor d’antenes (LaBreu, 2017), Cementiri d’avions (Adia Edicions, 2018), Saurí del nom (LaBreu, 2022) and the novels Haiku a Brooklyn (LaBreu, 2018) and Lives maybe ( LaBreu, 2021). He has made inroads in the story in the defunct magazine Les Males Herbes and in the world of photography, radio, podcasts, poetic exhumations and cinema. He abhors gregariousness. You can find him at mafiamental.blogspot.com and @mafia_mental (Instagram) and mafia_mental_ (X)..

Recital and conference with Joan Vigó , Anton Not and Nú Miret

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