4 October 2026 · Sara Marugan
Mercè Amat reviews my book on Ramon Llull
This article was machine-translated from Sara's Catalan original. The writing is hers; the translation has not been reviewed by a person. Read the Catalan original →
Mercè Amat Ballester, a teacher and writer, has written a review of my book Ramon Llull com mai te l'han explicat, and she has sent it to me.
She opens by calling it “a well-conceived and well-written work”, with “a pedagogical purpose committed to passing on our own intellectual tradition”, aimed at a wide readership but written, very especially, with young readers in mind. And she writes a sentence that made me very happy, because it is exactly what I set out to do: “We readers are always grateful for books like this, which have the gift of making simple what seems complex to us, or truly is.”
She explains very well how the book is built: following a chronological order, it distils the complexity of Llull's philosophy into its basic aspects to offer “an enjoyable and clear narrative”. Through examples and anecdotes — an approach she calls “Llullian in spirit” — it goes over Llull's life and work as a poet, philosopher, theologian, teacher, mystic, missionary and scientist.
She discusses the prologue and the preface too, and ends by saying that the book “undoubtedly helps to make the teaching of Llull clearer and more engaging”.
Thank you, Mercè, for reading it so closely and for writing these words about it.
