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Barcelona the Great Enchantress by Robert Hughes
From Publishers Weekly In this pared-down version of his
acclaimed Barcelona (1992), art critic Hughes traces Barcelona’s
progress from a burgeoning port city to the booming Catalan capital
that roughly 1.5 million people call home today. Hughes’s portrait
chronologically flutters from one century to another, shedding light on
the city’s cryptic history in a way very few non-Catalans can. Hughes
treats the city as if it’s his own, and his critiques are justified and
insightful, drawing on personal anecdotes, excerpts of Catalan
manuscripts and anti-Castilian decrees. It’s not the details of
cataclysmic events like the plague of 1348 or the bitter suffocation
forced upon Cataluña by Franco that make Hughes’s book worthwhile, but
rather the accounts of small events that transformed "one enormous
ashtray, covered in a mantle of grime and grit" into what is now an
affable, colorful, modern hub. The author poetically weaves politics,
food, architecture, sport, myths and music into a striking depiction of
the great Catalan seaport. 8 b&w photos, 1 map.
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A frequent visitor who has been going to Barcelona regularly for nearly forty years offers a personal chronicle of the city, from his explanations of fourteenth-century architectural treasures to the years leading up to and beyond the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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