by David Castillo · Proa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484377450
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«Esquena nua» is the literary novel by David Castillo, published by Proa in paperback (96 pages, in Catalan).
The text includes the fragment «Còdol» and its Spanish version, «Guijarro»: the body appears as a landscape of light, sand and water, and desire intertwines with memory and forgetting. The work shows lyrical and sensual writing, playing with images and with the sonority of words in Catalan and Spanish.
Published by Proa in Barcelona on 22 May 2006, it is part of the Óssa Menor collection as number 284.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction in Catalan and for those seeking short lyrical texts.
David Castillo i Buïls is a Spanish poet, writer, and literary critic. He started out as a poet with counterculture and underground publications in the 1970s, although his first published work, a declaration of principles, was the biography of Bob Dylan in 1992. Three years earlier, he had been the anthologist of Ser del segle, which brought together leading voices of the generation of the 1980s. They were followed by a series of poems among them "Game over", which won the Carles Riba Poetry Prize. Then he began a career as a writer with novels like El cel de l'infern and No miris enrere, that were well accepted both by critics and the general public. El cel de l'infern was awarded the Crexells Prize for the best Catalan novel of the year in 1999. No miris enrere won the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la of 2001. Castillo has received Atlàntida awards for journalism three times, and he has also been awarded the Italian "Tratti Poetry Prize for the best foreign poet" for his anthology of poetry translated into Italian. He has been organizing various poetic cycles. He is a founder of Poetry Week in Barcelona, and has been a director of it since 1997.
