Salvador Pániker

Conversations in Madrid and Catalonia

Original title:

Conversaciones en Madrid y en Cataluña.

About the book:

Conversations in Madrid and Catalonia

This is a classic of a book that simply revolutionised the art of interviewing when it came out. The author describes it as “an experiment with mayeutic [i.e. Socratic] aims, a mixture of essay, journalism and theatre verité. And adds that these are real conversations, “which seek to throw light, through dialogue, on the central message of a number of people centrally placed in one field or another of human wisdom or achievement.”

Many of these people are today historic figures, whose passionate testimony keeps fresh their genuine relevance to the contemporary world. Catalonia, Spain, the counterposing of the two, life in general – these are recurrent themes in this irreplaceable book which we now make available to readers once again.

The texts are illustrated by equally historic photographs by the late Xavier Miserachs.

About the author:

Salvador Pániker has a doctorate in industrial engineering and is philosophy graduate. Other works of particular interest by this writer are Aproximación al origen (Approach to origin), Primer testimento (First testament), Ensayos retroprogresivos (Retropressive essays), Segunda memoria (Second memory), Cuaderno Amarillo (Yellow notebook), Variaciones 95 Variations 95) and Asimetrías (Asymmetries).