Barcelona Tales (City Tales)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780198798378
- ISBN10 0198798377
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 288
- Col.lecció CITY TALES #
- Any Edició 2019
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Paperback
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Literatura AnglesaBarcelona Tales (City Tales)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
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 explorethe 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 thecity 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.