Biografies parcials offers an entertaining, ironic and shrewd view of the recent history of the Valencian Country. This first volume gathers the portrays of six important figures born between 1940 and 1950: the novelist Josep Lozano, the learned Francesc Pérez Moragón, the cooperativist Josep M. Soriano Bessó, the lawyer Lluís Aguiló Lúcia, the English medievalist Robert Archer and the painter Manuel Boix. Through the story about individual events, some of the most outstanding facts about Valencian literature, arts, politics and economy in the last decades are explained: the history of the review Gorg, the gestation of the novel Crim de Germania, the business of the Gran Enciclopedia de la Región Valenciana, the artistic environment's updating, the beginning of Consum cooperative, the internationalization of Ausiàs March's poetry prestige, the «blaverisme» bursting, nationalist aspirations...