Barcelona [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Hughes, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679743839 ISBN 13: 9780679743835

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

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Book by Hughes Robert

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"Confirms . . . Mr. Hughes's authority as a first-rate chronicler and historian. The book is destined to become, like Forster's Alexandria and Mary McCarthy's Venice Observed, a classic." --The New York Times Book Review

"Authoritative, carefully researched, and full of insights into the city's great heritage . . . his judgments are full of tolerant and good-humored fascination. . . . There is no single volume in either Catalan or Spanish that approaches this book in scope or detail...a superb achievement and a great pleasure to read." --The Washington Post Book World

"Brilliant...an extraordinary book that combines history, criticism of the arts and architecture, and a profound sympathy for the moral essence of a people." --Newsday

Reseña del editor:

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 sense.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679743839
• ISBN 13: 9780679743835
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592