A gravedigger who secretly lives out his platonic love for a media cook, a busty and bisexual tobacconist who wears T-shirts with Japanese concepts, a witty and funny prostitute who is happy to please the most varied tastes of her clients … These are some of the characters discovered by the protagonist of ‘Vides potser’ (LaBreu) when, to escape the existential torpor, he decides to regain his title of private detective and go to work. His first commission is anonymous: he must investigate the gravedigger Orson Mur, who lives in a small coastal town, Santa Marta.
Joan Vigó, poet and novelist of the Barcelona underground scene‘, pays homage in this magnetic novel to his admired Georges Perec and the character Percival Bartlebooth from’ La vie mode d’emploie ‘. Here the Perequiano building is this town where the novice detective lands to win the friendship of the gravedigger by hiding his identity. Here he discovers an anthill of lives, some full of silences, others of ghosts, surprising fetishisms — cledalism, for example — but also of yearnings to find the key that gives meaning to time.
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Vigó manages to weave a coherent plot and maintains an intrigue that is reversed: more than inquiring about the life of the person under investigation, the question is to discover who has commissioned him. With novel genre accents and a good range of quirky characters, ‘Maybe lives’ She draws on historical personalities, especially the eccentric and fascinating Italian marquise Luisa Casati, muse of the surrealists and herself turned into a work of art, in a reflection on the ability to reinvent life and the need to tighten the limits of existence.
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