Presentation of the book “Gozos mínimos. Comentario parcial al ‘Libro de amigo y amado’ de Ramon Llull”

The Museu Tàpies hosts the presentation of the book Gozos mínimos. Comentario parcial al ‘Libro de amigo y amado’ de Ramon Llull [Minimal Pleasures: Partial Commentary on “The Book of the Lover and the Beloved” by Ramon Llull], by Amador Vega, with images by Frederic Amat, published in a bilingual Edition by Días Contados. The presentation will feature the presence of Amador Vega, Miquel Bassols and Perejaume.

What does it mean to love or desire a written text? The response of Amador Vega is to maintain this text in play and movement. The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, by Majorcan sage Ramon Llull (1275–1316), is a classic of European spiritual literature, a guide to a living drama that is never the same as itself. Gozos mínimos is a staging of this drama, documenting the tastes and tribulations of someone who has read the book for more than forty years. Together with the para-textual images of Frederic Amat, this lyrical commentary on “the philosopher’s enamoured soul” speculates and intones with Llull, offering personal life anecdotes and those of others, while addressing other authors with citations from more than 600 years of reading in favour and against mysticism.

Participants:

Amador Vega (Barcelona, 1958) is a philosopher and professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he directs the Centre for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture. Recent publications include DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice (2019) and Tentativas sobre el vacío. Ensayos de estética y religión (2022). He is currently visiting professor at the Warburg Institute, University of London.

Miquel Bassols is a psychoanalyst in Barcelona, member of the École de la Cause freudienne and of the Comunitat de Catalunya de l’Escola Lacaniana de Psicoanàlisi. Lecturer at the Institut del Camp Freudià. Doctorate by the Département de Psychanalyse of the Université Paris 8 with a tesis on «L’amor, la paraula i la lletra a Ramon Llull». Former president of the Association Mondiale de Psychanalyse (2014-2018). Translator into Catalan of  Jacques Lacan’s writing, _Lituraterra_, with the comment “Lecturaterra”, published in Días Contados, Barcelona 2021.

Perejaume (Sant Pol de Mar, 1957) is a visual artist, poet and essayist. Recent publications include Treure una marededeu a ballar (2018), Fonts líquides i fonts lignificades (2020), El sol i les fogueres (2022) and L’escrita (2025).