Binding: Paperback
Description: Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe a multilingual capital of an autonomous region that longs to be independent of Spain. The city is famous for its painters modernist architecture style of football and its history but as Peter Bush reveals it has always been a major centre of literary talent and creativity. Barcelona Tales presents a selection of newly translated short stories by 14 writers many of them Catalan. The stories explore the themes of migration and class conflict in a city renowned in world literature from the day rural innocents Don Quixote and Sancho Panza visited its streets at the beginning of the seventeenth - century and witnessed the wonders of the printing press and the cruelties of slavery. Together they open up the city in ironic tragic and lyrical ways inviting readers to explore fictional lives and literary styles that reflect the dynamic conflict - ridden character and history of this great European city.
Title: Barcelona Tales
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198798378
Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/2019
Series: City Tales
Category: Fiction In Translation