Balada

With Balada, Pere Gimferrer presents us with a work brimming with maturity: a erudite and torrential poem of symphonic nature, in eight movements that encapsulate the lucid memory of the world and of language, its verbal and imaginative splendors, amidst chiaroscuro and brilliance. Balada is a celebration of a life and a body of work, incessant, inquisitive, visionary, through a repertoire of cultural, literary, cinematic, and urban references that constitute Gimferrer's vibrant memory. Thus, his verses gleam amidst the echoes of Calderón and Shakespeare, Cernuda, Alberti, and Keats, the cities—from Barcelona and Madrid to Paris and Delhi—the films and painters around which his memory pivots, beginning with El Greco and his Mannerist altarpiece.