Barcelona. Llibre de viatge

Author/s
Carlos Zanón, Lara Costafreda (Illustrator) and Josep Maria Nadal Suau (Translator)
Co-edition with
Tintablanca
Collection
Barcelona Literary

Carlos Zanón and Lara Costafreda take us on a personal, unique, and impassioned journey through the streets of the Catalan capital.

Leading us up and down Las Ramblas, from the heights of Montjuïc to the fading evening light of the Gothic Quarter, the book also touches on the novels and writers that have described Barcelona, the legacy of Antoni Gaudí, the elusive perspective of Pepe Carvalho, and the author’s lost memories in his home district of Horta-Guinardó. Zanón paints an intimate portrait of the city while artist Lara Costafreda illustrates the human, cosmopolitan side of a mixed-heritage, cultured, contradictory capital that exudes an air of perpetual change.

«You can’t get angry with Barcelona for long because all of the good and bad that she does is done without deliberate intent. Nervous, electrifying, skittish, a rascal, a pyromaniac, addicted to the romanticism of the literary salon, the Wagnerian epic, and the endless melodrama of the bourgeois novel.»

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Carlos Zanón

Carlos Zanón (Barcelona, 1966) is the author of various collections of poems and novels and has been singled out as one of the leading names in Spanish literature. His novels have been translated in the USA, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Greece and Italy. He writes articles and reviews in newspapers, magazines and cultural supplements and has been the curator of the literary festival BCNegra since 2017.


Lara Costafreda

She is an internationally renowned illustrator. Based in Barcelona for the last ten years, she has led communication projects for welcoming migrants and refugees. 

Technical Data

  • Publication language: Catalan
  • Also available in: English and Spanish
  • Year: 2024
  • Pages: 240
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Format: 13 x 20,5 cm
  • ISBN City Council: 978-84-9156-575-8
  • Publishing ISBN: 978-84-126361-7-8

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29.90€

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