Institut Ramon LLull

Sagittarius is the last book of literary essays published in Fuster’s lifetime, and one of his masterpieces. It is a collection of prose, in different forms and a variety of tones: essays flirting with the lyrical, aphorisms as short and incisive as arrows, an essay graphically constructed as if it were poetry, articles of varying length, etc. The subjects are as diverse as the author’s interests: ranging from morals to the “mystery of poetry”, from materialism to the power of the state. Yet what stands out is Fuster’s mature and circumspect reflection on the necessary exercise of rationality, on its conundrums and dangers. This book is a distillation of every virtue of Fuster’s addictive style: irony and sarcasm in the service of skepticism and polemics; and limpid, compelling and gorgeous prose.