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What is Barcelonas about?

Barcelona, the exuberant capital of Catalonia and host of the 1992 Olympics, is here explored and exposed by its greatest contemporary author. Manuel Vazquez Montalbans anecdotal history takes us on an imaginary tour of the city, from its most secret corners to its most famous monuments. An erudite and impassioned guide, Montalban finds a controversy in every building, a story in every street, illuminating the citys rich history and turbulent politics, its art, gastronomy and football. There are many Barcelonas, and Montalban knows them the lavish art-nouveau houses in Vallvidrera where he himself lives; the labyrinthine squalor of the Barri Xino, setting for Genets Thiefs Journal ; the Barri Gotic where the independent Catalan Kingdom between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries created a nationalist consciousness which has endured for half a millennium; the oneiric Parc Guell, designed by the citys most celebrated architect, Antoni Gaudi. But this definitive survey is one unlikely to be endorsed by the Oficina de Turismo . For Montalban is fiercely critical of the values of the new Olympic the misery of the inner-city slums where one person dies every second day from a heroin ove

Author

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Publisher

London ; New York: Verso

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780860913535

Subjects

Travel, History, Humanities