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Marta Marín-Dòmine
Do we come from where we were born, where we live or where our ancestors came from? These are the questions that Marta Marín-Dòmine explores in Fugir era el més bell que teníem...
![Retrat de José Miguel Vizcaya, Chiqui de la Línea © Albert Armengol](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/tendencies-chiqui-obertura-1100.jpg?itok=qsDHlhja)
Rosalía followed the trail of the teacher and cantaor [flamenco singer] Chiqui de la Línea to the Catalonia School of Music (ESMUC), where El mal querer, her graduate...
![El mal querer, Rosalía. Sony Music, 2018.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/tendencies-rosalia-disc-obertura-1100.jpg?itok=3xsWqQE1)
El mal querer, Rosalía’s second album, is an epic story full of sonic turbulence and minor artistic challenges. Based on alternative imagery, Rosalía proposes a mix of soulful...
![L'Eixample de Barcelona © Pepe Navarro](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/debat-punti-eixample-obertura-1100.jpg?itok=s9LgTjRJ)
Barcelona’s geometric structure marks out the scenarios of its literature, occasionally facing a suffocating and distressing interior, and in other instances facing margins that...
![Un carrer del Raval © Consuelo Bautista](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/debat-carrero-sucunza-obertura-1100.jpg?itok=Mywd3skP)
If we take a look back, we may realise that a novel about Barcelona offers two ways of seeing the city. The one put forward by Spanish-language authors is based on a more...
![Llibres oberts © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/debat-literatura-1100x548.jpg?itok=D_MEVjA0)
We have asked Barcelona authors who write in Catalan and/or in Spanish whether they believe that the Barcelona in novels differs at all if one language or the other is used...
![Vista panoràmica de Barcelona des de la Sagrada Família © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/sumari-internacional-1100.jpg?itok=oD2OTMt7)
This text studies two international cultural phenomena. The first is Rosalía, with her origins in the Taller de Músics and ESMUC. The second is the intersection and differences between...
![Llibre: Barcelona feminista 1975-1988. Isabel Segura Soriano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-llibre-bcn-feminista.jpg?itok=FuCuDR7M)
Her name was María Ángeles Muñoz and she was the cause of the rebellious catchphrase of solidarity a multitude of women also adopted: ‘I am an adulteress, too”. This catchphrase ‘not...
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