Marina D’Or is El Dorado: Discussion with the writer Robert Juan-Cantavella

Here you have the great novel about the glorious days of the East-coast Holiday Resort. Before the crash in the property industry and the “FOR SALE” signs existed, let’s not lie, a camp paradise for retirement and leisure, full of sculptures by Ripollès, resort sensuality, funfairs forever under construction and, between concrete blocks, some dirty sand dunes that with a drop of good faith could be called a “little beach”. An astonishing satirical journey, with curious moments of sobriety, in which the Jewel of the Mediterranean is contrasted with the Valencia occupied by the people attending the World Meeting of Families. 

Reading: El Dorado (Mondadori)

Robert Juan-Cantavella (Almassora, 1976) is a writer and translator who teaches novel writing at the Ateneu Barcelonès writing school. He has contributed to Quimera, Tendències, PlayGround and El Estado Mental. Besides the book that we shall be commenting on, he has published the volume of short stories Proust Fiction (Poliedro), the book of poems Los sonetos (El Gaviero) and the novels Otro (Laia), Asesino cósmico (Mondadori), Y el cielo era una bestia (Anagrama) and El corazón de Julia (Morsa), the last one in collaboration with Òscar Gual. His work has been translated into French.