The novel by the outstanding Catalan writer Jaume Cabret “The Shadow of the Eunuch” is a funny and sad story of a sentimental and amorous art lover, a scion of the ancient Gensan family, who, in search of the Path, Truth and Life, devoted his student years to the armed struggle for justice. The Shadow of the Eunuch is a novel riddled with literary and musical allusions. Like Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, the structure of which he mirrors, the book is a kind of “double requiem.” It is dedicated to the "memory of the angel", Teresa, and sounds like a requiem for the main character, Miquel Genzana, for himself. The story sounds like a dying confession. The hero found himself in the house where he spent his childhood (by a cruel twist of fate, the family nest turned into a fashionable restaurant). Like Berg's concerto, the novel tells the fates of all the loved and lost beings associated with the house of Gensan.