The last man who spoke Catalan

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If Catalan ever disappeared, What would the last man be like to speak it?? One of the protagonists of this novel, the writer Miquel Rovira, he devotes all his creative capacity to answering this question. Rovira imagines a Catalonia in which Catalan has disappeared and investigates the causes, as if it were a detective novel. There is a victim, the Catalan, a researcher, who is an American professor who wants to clarify the reasons for the disappearance of the language, and a testimony, the last man who speaks Catalan. Ramón Balaguer, the other protagonist, he is also a writer, and he doesn't want to leave the flat where he lives before finishing the novel he is writing, despite the fact that the owner of the rest of the building is making life impossible for him to sell the flat and leave. Balaguer gives up a lot of money and comforts for his work. Does this sacrifice make sense??The last man who spoke Catalan narrates a case of real estate siege or mobbing which - being the victim a writer- it becomes a siege in literature. A story about the life of two Catalan novelists, one who writes in Spanish and the other in Catalan, and that they defend the option they have chosen. Ultimately, a reflection on bilingualism, about the state of our language and our identity.