SEMIIDÈNTICS
(Angle editorial, 2021)
Novel: adult
Literary style: narrative
Language: catalan
Genre: nouvelle, psychologica novel
Ari and Aran are constantly struggling with a feeling of lack, as if they are missing a part of themselves. She, Ari, composes songs about her feelings and worries: loneliness, misunderstanding, absence, fog. Even though she’s only nineteen, she’s triumphing everywhere with her torn, poignant raps. He, Aran, is a dancer and on stage is the perfect blend of strength and delicacy: his body seeks to connect with the world, with someone. Even though he is only nineteen, the best dance companies want to hire him.
With a style that is both lyrical and direct, Muriel Villanueva has woven the story of two young people who are looking for each other, who are questioning their identity, their sexual reality and their origins, and who feel the same emptiness. But neither of them knows the other one exists.