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Barcelona : mapa infinito / Álex Chico ; ilustrado por Joan Ramon Farré Burzuri.
Van Pelt Library PQ6703.H47 B37 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chico, Álex, 1980-
- Series:
- Vagamundos (Ediciones Traspiés)
- Vagamundos
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Barcelona (Spain)--History and criticism.
- Barcelona (Spain).
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Granada] : Ediciones Traspiés, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Una ciudad se pierde si alguien no la escribe. La frase de Italo Calvino podría resumir la actitud de Alex Chico al enfrentarse a Barcelona, pues a partir de ella inicia un rescate literario y emocional de la que considera su ciudad. Y es que cada rincón de la urbe, cada calle, cada monumento, ofrece una posibilidad literaria, como si toda ella floreciese cuando el escritor sabe observarla. Alex Chico conoce bien Barcelona, ha leído innumerables libros sobre ella y ha admirado las obras de arte que la pueblan, puede decirse que se ha dedicado a ella en cuerpo y alma durante mucho tiempo. Pero eso no es para él ninguna garantía, sino un nuevo acicate para intentar conocerla mejor, para acercarse más a sus gentes, para disfrutar otra vez de sus escritores, para dejarse llevar por el vagabundeo entre sus calles. El de flaner es un oficio inagotable que precisa de la devoción del paseante, pero que también necesita la colaboración entusiasta de las piedras y los aires ciudadanos. Y Barcelona se presta a ello. Más aún, parece deseosa de ser recorrida, de ser interrogada." -- Contraportada.
- "A city is lost if someone does not write it. Italo Calvino's phrase could summarize Alex Chico's attitude when facing Barcelona, since from it he begins a literary and emotional rescue of what he considers his city. And every corner of the city, every street, every monument, offers a literary possibility, as if it all flourished when the writer knows how to observe it. Alex Chico knows Barcelona well, he has read countless books about it and has admired the works of art that populate it, it can be said that he has dedicated himself body and soul to it for a long time. But that is not a guarantee for him, but rather a new incentive to try to get to know it better, to get closer to its people, to enjoy its writers again, to let himself be carried away by wandering through its streets. Flaner is an inexhaustible profession that requires the devotion of the walker, but that also needs the enthusiastic collaboration of the stones and the citizens' air. And Barcelona lends itself to it. Furthermore, she seems eager to be explored, to be questioned." -- Bak cover.
- ISBN:
- 9788412626773
- 841262677X
- OCLC:
- 1417334789
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