What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?
"There really is one?" breathed Phouchg.
"There really is one," confirmed Deep Thought.
"To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything?"
"Yes."
Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children […].
"Tell us!"
"Alright," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."
"Yes...!"
"Of Life, the Universe and Everything..." said Deep Thought.
"Yes...!"
"Is..." said Deep Thought, and paused.
"Yes...!"
"Is..."
"Yes...!!!...?"
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
(Pan Books)
Main activities
Distinguished participants
Featured books
The festival bookshops!
The foyer at Fabra i Coats will be brimming with books again during the five days of this year’s 42 Festival. For this fourth edition of the festival, the La Memòria bookshop will be tasked with tempting you with a stall full of the finest literature from fantastic genres.
In this same space, the authors taking part in the festival will be signing copies of their books following their sessions, and there will be a book signing for 42 Award-winning works on Saturday, 9 November, following a public conversation with all the winners in Room 1 at 4 pm.