Institut Ramon LLull

Despite the world’s disillusionment, science’s hegemony and our postmodern crises of faith, the seven deadly sins still carry weight in our individual and collective morality. Who wants to be seen as slothful? Who’ll admit to envying their friends? Or that they sometimes get carried away by wrath? In order to analyse these concepts, which were born in religion but still operate in our secular day-to-day, Fragmenta has brought together seven essayists under forty-five years old and gave them free rein to write a brief reflection on one of the seven cardinal sins. The assignment was to create a text that was both completely rigorous and absolutely personal; a text that engaged with tradition yet was also heterodox. The result is an astute collection that transgresses the nature of the deadly sins to reveal the nature of the sinners.