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 senythe Catalan word for triumphant common sense..
Robert Hughes (Sidney, 1938 ? Nueva York 2012) vivió desde 1970 en Estados Unidos, donde ejerció de crítico de arte para la revista Time. Es autor de The Fatal Shore (1987), The Shock of the New (1991), A toda crítica (1992), Barcelona (1996) y Goya (2004). Sus libros han recibido un gran número de galardones, como el Premio Brusi de Literatura y Comunicación.
