De viva veu. Entrevistes (1952-1992)

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2003, Edition at the expense of Isidre Crespo. Prologue by Enric Sòria, 462 pp.

Fuster was a great conversationalist: quick, accurate, ironic, and often overwhelming. His Monday meeting with friends or the ones he spent until the daybreak with the people who went to Sueca to visit him are famous. In Fuster, even in the most doctoral of his historical works, there is always a strange symbiosis between language and prose, as a colloquial naturalness of writing. The inverse was likewise true. If his writing always keeps something of the participant and persuasive closeness of the pronounced word, the oral Fuster also preserves much of the skill and the sharp wit of the professional writer. Those who did not meet him lost this. As the old saying goes, verba volant, scripta manent; the lived word is inherently evanescent. It only remains fixed in text, and one cannot talk to a text. The oral Fuster, the great fencer immediate to the divine and the human, has disappeared, but he survives, in some way as an echo of what he was, in these interviews. Those who have not meet him will be surprised of his precision, his exhaustive accuracy —often with quotations, examples and data— and the clearness of his answers.