There is life in Robines too.

Many storytellers have invented literary spaces to frame their narratives. Well-known examples include William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, who created the now-mythical psychogeographical universes of Yoknapatawpha and Macondo, respectively. However, it's not necessary to turn to foreign literature to arrive at memorable places. As Joan-Lluís Lluís mapped with his Dictionary of the imaginary places of the Catalan CountriesIn our house, we have a veritable treasure trove of epic locations: from Baltasar Porcel's Andratx to Antoni Vidal Ferrando's Almandaia, passing through the Acrollam of the two Mesquida brothers (Biel and Jaume), or the territory that concerns us today, Llorenç Moyà's Robines, a Binissalem toponym that became the preferred and predominant setting for his stories and novellas. The new explorer of the secrets of this very special place in the heart of Mallorca is Miquel Àngel Vidal—one of the leading experts on Moyà's work, having dedicated a doctoral thesis, the definitive biography, and several editions of his poems to him with various publishers—with the volume The myth of Robin Hood in Ediciones Documenta Balear.

With this well-conceived and crafted work, the fruit of many years of study and labor, Miquel Àngel Vidal reaffirms that he is not only one of the most prolific and valuable writers in Catalan literature – with splendid novels such as The heartbeat of darkness in Quaderns Crema and plays as powerful as Birnam Wood in Lleonard Muntaner, Editor and extraordinary collections of stories such The impact of meteorites in the Seventeenth Edition—but he is also an attentive reader and a true narratological researcher capable of offering a wide range of fruitful reading perspectives, of delving deeper into the cosmogony of a fascinating literary figure. The pages ofThe myth of Robin Hood They are a meticulous analysis of one of the lesser-known facets of a true master of words who primarily demonstrated his artistry in magnificent lyrical compositions, but who also possessed considerable talent for a daring narrative style that was framed within a very specific, and also very difficult, period of our history. Llorenç Moyà was one of the post-war poets—along with Jaume Vidal Alcover, Josep M. Llompart, and Blai Bonet—who, during the Francoist dictatorship, began under the wing of the Mallorcan School and later managed to forge his own voice, more modern, eclectic, and even provocative.

The myth of Robines. Narrative by Llorenç Moyà, by Miquel Àngel Vidal at Edicions Documenta Balear, is a magnificent book that invites us to reread, from other perspectives, the legacies of the author who traveled to the land of the cantaridae.