Insobornable : Vida de Gaziel

Although Josep Pla said that Agustí Calvet (1887-1964), better known by his pseudonym Gaziel, had been "the most prominent figure in peninsular journalism for almost a quarter of a century", Josep Benet concluded that he was also "one of the least known, most misunderstood, and most defamed figures" of 20th-century Catalonia. Both judgments are accurate, for it is no exaggeration to say that Gaziel became the best journalist not only in Catalonia, but in all of Spain, nor is it an exaggeration to affirm that in recent decades he has been one of the most unfairly judged personalities by a sector of Catalan culture. This biography —the first published in Spanish about him— is an attempt to reconstruct the complex life and career of an intellectual who, in his own words, "despite his profound Catalan identity, of which he is very proud, has always had the urge to transcend its original boundaries". Spain interested him more than Catalonia, the Iberian Peninsula more than Spain, Europe more than the Iberian Peninsula, and above all, the human element of Terence, Humanity itself.” A man whom his readers loved because they knew that, while fallible, he was, above all, incorruptible.