Biography

"Born in French Catalonia in 1972. Le théorème d'Almodovar is my first novel published by Gallimard in January 2008, by Seix Barral (Spain) in March and then by Guanda Italy. I live in Rome. My next book, Mort au romantisme (Muerte al romanticismo), a collection of short stories will be published by Gallimard in 2009. I am working on my next novel." (Biography from Antoni Casas Ros blog: casasros.blogspot.com)

"First the disturbing sensation of being held hostage. Manipulated. The book is in front of us, with its title, a name on the cover ... But after a few pages, it is the book that grabs us, envelopes us, is shamelessly at ease with our freedom. (...) - For fifteen years, no one saw me. To have a life, you must have a face. The frame of the novel is set, or rather the thought program, mastered - to excess. From this subtraction of existence, the narrator weaves in a fiery hundred and fifty pages (with a slight drop of intensity) another life on paper, of cinema, mathematical formulas. Two ambiguous figures make the story : a transsexual prostitute, Lisa, beautiful and voluptuous, showing a utopian perfection, and Pedro Almodovar, filmmaker who combines harmony and chaos (...)"
(Patrick Kéchichian, Le Monde des Livres, Friday, March 21, 2008)