Joan Buades

Crui. Els portadors de la torxa.

INFORMATION

An exploration of the limits of Evil and our individual and collective capacity to build perfect stories where life is made of darning and cracks.

Albert Lovain, 95, millionaire and Belgian philanthropist established in Mallorca, is preparing to say goodbye to life with a great family encounter. A news arrival from London, however, opens a crack (that means the 'crui' of the title) and ends up revealing its Nazi past. The tourist boom, the Francoist elites, the black holes of international finance, the mysteries of the human soul and the darkest shadows of European history are some of the main themes of the work.

Joan Buades reveals several "events that do not appear in the official version of the facts", such as "the inheritance of Nazism", "the roots of tourist totalitarianism" and "the black holes of capitalism.” The author summons to Crui some real historical figures, such as the banker Joan March, "the Rockefeller of Europe" and Obersturmbannfürer Otto Skorzeny, who rescued Mussolini during World War II.