: The spirits of women persecuted and executed centuries ago during the Inquisition, who still roam the ridges.
At the heart of this literary phenomenon is Irene Solà Sáez, a Spanish writer and artist born in Malla, Catalonia, in 1990. With a background in fine arts from the University of Barcelona and a master's degree from the University of Sussex, Solà’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary, seamlessly blending the visual and the written. irene sola canto yo y la montana baila
The novel feels like a campfire tale. There are references to rondalles (Catalan folk tales). The characters speak in dialogue that has no quotation marks, blurring the line between what is spoken and what is thought. Solà is recovering a pre-literary consciousness—where myths explain lightning, and ghosts explain the wind. : The spirits of women persecuted and executed
In the final pages, the mountain speaks directly. It tells us that it has been there before humans, and it will be there after. It tells us that our wars, our loves, our mushroom hunts are just the tremors of its dance. The novel feels like a campfire tale