Forest, Whale, Fog

Like a triptych by Francis Bacon, a vision by Franz Kafka, a poem by Herta Müller or a scream by Víctor Català, Josep Lluís Badal writes Bosc, balena i boira. These are three fables, three faces of a single narrative that reinvents the art of popular storytelling and the ancestral wisdom of myths through pages as perverse as they are precious. With a striking and fascinating expressiveness, the author refounds the tales of Little Red Riding Hood, the magical flower, and Sleeping Beauty without shying away from the violence, sensuality, and evil that pulse in the original legends — and in ourselves, their heirs.

For its beauty and its boldness, Bosc, balena i boira is a wild experience that forces us to face the heart, the eyes, and the sex of the beast. And perhaps to ask ourselves who, in the fable, in life, is the true beast.