Canto yo y la montaña baila literally means "I sing and the mountain dances." It contains the novel’s entire philosophical core. The "I" is ambiguous: Is it the author? Is it Sió? Is it the reader? The act of singing (narrating, writing, living) creates a reaction in the landscape. The mountain does not just stand there; it dances. It moves, it shifts, it falls, it grows. The title is an invitation to a reciprocal relationship with nature.
One critic for The Guardian wrote: "It reads like a hallucination you don’t want to wake up from." Solà uses run-on sentences, sudden line breaks, and a total lack of quotation marks. Dialogue melts into narration. Memory melts into prophecy. irene sola canto yo y la montana baila