This reading is not easy, but the efforts are rewarded

Adrià Ardèvol, child and Barcelona man is both the main character of this novel and its narrator. However this novel depicts a profusion of protagonists; this is one of the first challenges of this story. So, I have identified nearly 191 characters in the Dramatis personae (list of characters) located on page 777 of this book.
Another difficulty: the narrative is not linear, and without warning, we move in the same chapter, from one era to another and from one place to another (for example, to Barcelona during the 1940s, in 17th century Italy). This book is full of digressions and digressions digressions ... We are sometimes on the verge of understandable. But some fluid and fast passages offset laborious passages. Gradually, everything becomes clear and we understand the meaning of these digressions and their justification (that is to say, the mental state of confusion where the "storyteller").
Sometimes, it is noted that Adrià Ardèvol speaks of himself as well in the first person singular in the third person singular, in the same sentence. Hard, hard ...

The pitch, briefly:
Felix Ardèvol (an antique dealer, collector), the father of Adrià Ardèvol, wants to make his only son a humanist, a multilingual scholar (a dozen foreign languages ​​to the program). While Carme, the mother of Adrià, for its part, would make a virtuoso violinist. So here flanked by a tyrannical father and a non-affectionate and erased mother, who dictate what to do.
After reading the first 100 pages, we learn that Adrià Ardèvol, well sounded sixties, suffered a degenerative brain disease (Alzheimer's disease). He gives his best friend the manuscript he Bernat load type to the computer. This manuscript is the body of this novel (Confiteor).

My conclusion: a great abounding and sensitive novel that makes me want to discover the history written by Jaume Cabré, the author.