Join us for an engaging debate titled 'Nightmares and Ghosts', featuring esteemed writers David Uclés and Elisenda Solsona. This discussion explores how fantasy and the supernatural serve as powerful tools to depict personal and collective traumas, reflecting on the literary legacy of Mercè Rodoreda. Both writers will examine the presence of ghosts and spectral figures in Rodoreda's works, which reveal the unaddressed wounds of society. In their authorship, Uclés and Solsona embrace elements of horror and the fantastical not merely as an escape, but as a profound method to confront difficult realities including gender violence and historical atrocities. Uclés’s upcoming novel intertwines magical realism with historical memory to narrate experiences from the Spanish Civil War, while Solsona uses fantasy to articulate the pains of infertility in a dystopian framework. This thought-provoking discussion, moderated by Ricard Ruiz Garzón, invites attendees to consider the deep connections of