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La ciudad de los prodigios / The City of Marvels
Novel , 1986
Seix Barral
Pages: 576
Barcelona, chief city of Catalonia plays the role of a magical, protean character in this sprightly novel, a bestseller in Spain. The action spans the years between Barcelona's two World's Fairs of 1888 and 1929.
In 1886 Onofre Bouvila arrives in Barcelona to begin his career as anarchist, salesman, burglar, filmmaker, and commercial-political deal maker, a career that parallels Barcelona's growth into a World's Fair city.
"Sous la forme d'un destin cocasse et drôle, Eduardo Mendoza met en scène avec un génie de l'écriture renversant - nourri d'un humour contemplatif, jonglant entre l'absurde et le caustique - la ville de Barcelone, son histoire et ses habitants, hommes et femmes qui façonnèrent les temps modernes en supportant sur leurs larges épaules le progrès d'un siècle en marche." –Hector Chavez, Babelio