La ciudad de los prodigios (Campana De Verano 05) (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Eduardo Mendoza (Author)

Book Description

Series: Campana De Verano 05 | Publication Date: January 10, 2005

Despues de varios intentos comprendi que el protagonista absoluto, sin mediacion de terceros, tenia que ser Onofre Bouvila, que este personaje energico, fantastico y canalla, con sus facetas oscuras y despiadadas, encarnaba mejor que nadie el espiritu de la Barcelona que yo queria representar. EDUARDO MENDOZA En el periodo comprendido entre las dos Exposiciones Universales de Barcelona de 1888 y 1929, con el telon de fondo de una ciudad tumultuosa, agitada y pintoresca, real y ficticia, asistimos a las andanzas de Onofre Bouvila, inmigrante pauperrimo, repartidor de propaganda anarquista y vendedor ambulante de crecepelo, y su ascension a la cima del poder financiero y delictivo. Mendoza nos propone un nuevo y singularisimo avatar de la novela picaresca y un brillante carrusel imaginativo de los mitos y fastos locales. Una fantasia satirica y ludica cuyo solido soporte realista inicial no excluye la fabulacion liberrima.

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Language Notes

Text: Spanish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 543 pages
• Publisher: Seix Barral (January 10, 2005)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8432216852
• ISBN-13: 978-8432216855
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,566,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real literature book, January 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: LA Ciudad De Los Prodigios (Biblioteca breve) (Paperback)

This is really amazing. It describes the history of a 'clever' guy in Barcelona at the end of the last century. It is very entertaiment and once you begin, you can not stop. DO NOT USE IT AS TABLE NIGHT BOOK. If you do so, you will not sleep for the entire night, because you will be reading it. In my opinion these book is not so good as 'Sin noticias de Gurb' but the quality of the vocabulary, the decription of the personages and the treatment of the situations make of this book one of the best of the spanish literature of the last 20 years.

1.0 out of 5 stars Was it so expensive to get an editor to review this edition?, December 25, 2011

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Arturo Esposito (Natick, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: La ciudad de los prodigios (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Edition)

This review is not about the novel, which is excellent, but about the dismal quality of the Kindle edition. It is unacceptable to pay for an ebook and find at least one misspelling on every page due to scanning mistakes. All they've done is OCR the text and turn it into an epub file without even a summary review by a copy-editor.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT account of brand new Industrial Barcelonacity life, September 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: LA Ciudad De Los Prodigios (Biblioteca breve) (Paperback)

You won't look at Barcelona (while walking through its old district and its Eixample) the same way anymore...