Illa Flaubert / Flaubert Island
Novel , 1990
Edicions 1984
Pages: 224
An exploration of man’s attitudes toward solitude and death. The protagonist, a literature professor, embarks on an investigation of solitude as the only way to fight the degrading power of time. This journey ultimately leads him to take refuge in the lighthouse of an abandoned island, where he experiments with various ways to combat the relentless advance of death. As in Els déus inaccessibles, Riera moves away from the realism of his earlier works to delve into a narrative that is essentially a parable about the eternal problems of human life.