Documentary reveals that writer Jaume Cabré has Alzheimer’s disease
Source: www.3cat.cat
The director Antoni Verdaguer reviews in “Jaume Cabré, la música de las palabras” the life and work of the author of “Yo confieso”.
The writer Jaume Cabré, winner of the Catalan Letters Award of Honor, has Alzheimer’s disease.
This is revealed in the documentary “Jaume Cabré, la música de las palabras”, directed by the director Antoni Verdaguer from Terrassa, as part of a series of audiovisual pieces he is making about prominent fellow citizens.
The documentary is co-produced by Ikiru Films and 3Cat, among others, and will be broadcasted in the program “El documental”. It was first shown in June 2024 at the last Fic-Cat festival, where Cabré received an honorary award.
The documentary will be shown again this Friday in Terrassa.
Today is the first screening at the Girona cinemas in Barcelona. And, since a few days ago, the documentary can also be seen from Filmin (co-producer).
A review of his life:
“Jaume Cabré, the music of words” is a review of the writer’s life and work based on the testimony of some thirty personalities, friends, publishers, writers, academics and also musicians.
Music has always been a language closely linked to the work of Cabré, of whom it has always been said that he seems to be a writer who composes symphonies with words or that he is a virtuoso musician who writes. Precisely, music is often a very valuable accompaniment tool for Alzheimer’s patients.
The documentary reviews the creative process of Cabré’s literary work. Names such as Vicenç Villatoro, Joaquim Maria Puyal or Jordi Savall appear, but the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, which works for the research and dissemination of Alzheimer’s disease, has also collaborated.
Jaume Cabré, a writer with a capital letter.
Cabré is one of the essential names of Catalan literature and a reference figure of the cultural scene. In 2010 he received the Prize of Honor of Catalan Letters awarded by Òmnium Cultural.
He also holds the Sant Jordi Cross, and in 2017 he was awarded the Catalan Book Week Lifetime Achievement Award for the excellence of his work as a writer and screenwriter and for the defense of culture in Catalan.
He was the creator and scriptwriter of the first TV3 television series, “La granja” (1989-1992) and other titles, such as the successful series “Estación de enlace”. He became known in the mid-70s with two books of short stories, “Fábulas de mal guardar” and “Tocan a muertes” and for the novels “Galceran, el héroe de la guerra negra” and “Carne de olla” ”, which the publishing house Proa reissued last year.
In the eighties he consolidated his literary work with works such as “La telaraña”, from which Antoni Verdaguer would make a film, or “Fran Junoy, o la agonía de los sonidos”.
In 1991 he published “Señoría”, a novel about judicial corruption that was a great success. Later came “La sombra del eunuco” and other works of great echo as “Las voces del Pamano”, of which a miniseries was made for TV3.
In 2011 he published “Yo confesso”, one of his most ambitious novels, which also became an international success with numerous translations. The protagonist, Adrià Ardèvol, is affected by Alzheimer’s disease and decides, before the disease progresses, to write his life. In 2021 the last novel of his career, “Consumits pel foc”, was published.
The penultimate chapter of his work has the name of a German neurologist of the early twentieth century, Alois Alzheimer, which unfortunately has little to do with fiction.
