NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 28, 1992
"The Gaudí section, which is very good, comes only at a very long book's end, by which time you are weary, and less involved than its great subject merits."
After a rousing introduction that touches on the Spanish Civil War and Miró, Gaudí, and the Barcelonese mania for design and its folk-pride in "seny" (well-proportioned common sense), coexisting with its "tradition of intense, wrenching civic change, of long-shot gambles and risky endeavors," Hughes plunges into the history of the city and of Catalunya entire—and is all but lost in its swamp thereafter.
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