The novel by the outstanding Catalan writer Jaume Cabre "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 of the main character, Mikel Zhensana, in itself — like a deathbed confession. The hero found himself in the house where his childhood years were spent (by the cruel will of chance, the ancestral nest turned into a fashionable restaurant). Like Berg's concert, the novel tells about the fate of all the beloved and lost creatures associated with the house of Zhensan.