Had to get this edition of The Name of the Rose because of Umberto Eco's drawings.

Tetracedron absci sus Vacuus by Salvador Dalí

Updated my Palol shelf

Inscription with a labyrinth

I’ve seen in Barcelona in 2 weeks: Sagrada Familia C. Batllo Pedrera Palau Guell Park Guell Palau de la Musica M. Picasso F. Miró Cat. Art Museum Montjuic Castle Dalí Mus. in Figueres Dalí House in Portlligat Cadaqués Montserrat Tarragona Girona Sitges Josep M. Miquel de Palol

Last Gaudí before departure

Visited an alchemist’s study

Casa Sayrach

Bolaño lived here

Another dragon off my bucket list

Barcelona. View from Montjuic.

The Monument to the Cathedral Master Builders of Girona by Josep Maria Subirachs

Girona Cathedral

The Tapestry of Creation at the Girona Cathedral is incredible

Tarragona Cathedral

Dragon slaying at the Tarragona Cathedral

Really love this sculpture. It must have a name, but I provisionally called it “The Decomposing Giant”.

Inside Dalí’s House

Salvador Dalí’s House in Portlligat. Not reachable by public transport, so I had to book a tour to get there.

The new episode of the best Italian literary podcast Not My Cup of Read is dedicated to Antonio Lobo Antunes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwF...

EYE : THE ECSTATIC YOLK Harold Rogers reviews The Beginnings by Antonio Moresco. haroldrogers.substack.com/p/eye-the-ec...

Misteri de Montserrat by Gaudí

Went hiking

Caravaggio’s St. Jerome at Montserrat

Casa Comalat designed by Salvador Valeri i Pupurull

Palau del Baró de Quadras designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch

Surreal to finally see this with my own eyes

Gaudí’s house

A mysterious labyrinth in an optical shop on Rambla de Catalunya. This might have something to do with the secret societies described by Miquel de Palol in his novels.

Met an old friend

The house where Dalí was born

Surrealism is Dalí

Francisco Mateos

What are they eating?

Cool devils here

Realistic representation of an angel

“What are you up to, guys?” “Not much. Sawing people, boiling people, piercing people, driving nails into people’s heads.”

So there is the new cool series Penguin International Writers, which is going to publish Cărtărescu's Theodoros and the rest of his Blinding trilogy in the UK. Awesome initiative, if you ask me. www.penguin.co.uk/series/PENIN...

God or rather Devilspeed!

New Moresco novel in May: Il finimondo “Among the figures that populate the city of the dead, an incredible non-place, appear Maradona, Freud, Dante, Pinocchio and, in a register with disturbing tones, actors of the present such as Trump and Musk” www.nutrimenti.net/libro/narrat...

The review is illustrated by the incredible fresco of the Last Judgement at the Horezu Monastery in Romania

Mircea Cartarescu schreef een uitzonderlijke roman van de grote greep www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

1.35 hour meeting with Cărtărescu and his translator into Dutch Jan Willem Bos moderated by my Belgian friend Remo Verdickt. In English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuF_...

April 6! Join us for a conversation between @maxlawton.bsky.social & Sean Thor Conroe about the life and work of Italian author Antonio Moresco—In-person at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and livestreamed on Zoom. If you want to join us online, register here: buff.ly/1OxJErP

Monday movie

Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st. details and guidelines: deepvellum.submittable.com/submit

Stefano D'Arrigo, Horcynus Orca (1975) Casa della Cultura Via Borgogna 3 Milano www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJL-...

1-hour review of Antonio Moresco's The Beginnings (tr. Max Lawton, ed. Francesco Pacifico) from Gravity's Random m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z18e...

RIP Alexander Kluge

Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church bbc.com/news/article...