Twenty years after his death, Jesús Moncada is still a fundamental author in our imagination. His work, with The Towpath as the cornerstone, centres on the mythical past of old Mequinensa, a town destined to disappear under the waters of a reservoir, to arrive at a universal reflection on loss, progress, and the miseries and greatness of the human condition. But to what extent is the memory of Jesús Moncada still alive? Can we say that his legacy is still leaving its mark on new generations of writers? 

In this conversation, Mònica Batet, Núria Bendicho, Adrià Pujol, and Juan Pablo Villalobos, four authors who did not meet the author personally during his lifetime, return to the town of Mequinensa to reflect on the timeliness and universality of Moncada’s literature, and decide whether his stories still describe today’s world, with its exiles, uprooting and irreversible transformations.