L'adolescent de sal

L’adolescent de sal is a novel by the Catalan writer Biel Mesquida published in 1975, that denounces 1970s society from the passionate perspective of a teenager.

A young man from Mallorca analyzes the crisis of bourgeois consciousness through the sparse writing of prose and poems that express repression, the desire for freedom, and the discovery of love and pleasure.

His mother serves as a symbol of oppression: through her monologues, we understand the challenge that the reading of her son's pages has posed to her traditional values.

[2] The reader participates in a meta-text that imitates the style of the school punishments, religious dogmas, and press releases, that is mixed in with the nascent writings of the teenager.

Stylistically, the text is notable for the fragmentation and mixture of genres: diary, letter, prose, poem, comics, etc.