Hispanité et romanité

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A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...

Este volumen sobre la Vitoria de los s. XV al XIX se asoma a la vida de las gentes que la poblaron desde la óptica de su relación con el espacio físico, la ciudad misma. Cada grupo refleja sus valores, actividades, necesidades e intereses, hasta derivar en esa ciudad capaz de asimilar varias a un tiempo: la que nacía de la 'obligación de aparentar' propia de la elite nobiliar; las gentes del comercio; los clérigos; los artesanos, cuyas actividades no hacían ya a las calles; los labradores, trabajadores en los campos circundantes a una ciudad para ellos mero dormitorio; los marginados,...