“Mis días terrenales” (My Days on Earth), published by Comanegra, is a mixture of novel and memoir during the Mallorca of the 60s.

In the late 60s, a 21 year-old man from Barcelona travels to Palma de Mallorca to play piano at a bar and write slogans for an advertising agency.  We are not sure what part of the main character is actually Arturo San Agustín (Born in Barcelona, 1949).

He tells us that in one occasion while sitting in a café in Rome, his idol Fellini told him: “the best memories are those we make up.” “I don’t entirely agree with him.  There is no credible story without a certain reality.  That reality is life, the people we meet,” says the author who is also winner of the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona de Periodismo Award in Journalism and permanent columnist of La Vanguardia.

The 60s were a time filled with the echoes of university student’s hymms and riots, the news of man landing on the Moon, and life was different betweem the son of a blue-collar worker and one from a rich family.

Read entire article here: La Vanguardia