Barcelona - Hardcover

Hughes, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394580273 ISBN 13: 9780394580272

Publisher: Knopf, 1992

Synopsis

Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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

From the Back Cover:

"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." -- 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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0394580273
• ISBN 13: 9780394580272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 573