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La ciudad de los prodigios

La ciudad de los prodigios

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Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction
Pages
232
Published
2020
Language
Spanish

Synopsis

"En el período comprendido entre las dos Exposiciones Universales de Barcelona de 1888 y 1929, con el telón de fondo de una ciudad tumultuosa, agitada y pintoresca, real y ficticia, asistimos a las andanzas de Onofre Bouvila, inmigrante paupérrimo, repartidor de propaganda anarquista y vendedor ambulante de crecepelo, y su ascensión a la cima del poder financiero y delictivo.Mendoza, en la novela original, nos propone un singularísimo avatar de la novela picaresca y un brillante carrusel imaginativo de los mitos y fastos locales. Una fantasía satírica y lúdica cuyo sólido soporte realista inicial no excluye la fabulación libérrima" --taken from Goodreads website.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

SatiricalGrittyComplexAtmospheric
Anti-HeroVillain Protagonist

Genres

Graphic Novels Literary Fiction Historical Fiction

Authors

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Claudio Stassi

Claudio Stassi is an author known for his graphic novels. His work includes "La ciudad de los prodigios," a historical fiction piece. Stassi's books often explore historical settings and personal stories.

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Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (Barcelona, 11 January 1943) is a Spanish novelist, playwright and translator. Trained as a lawyer, he lived in New York from 1973 to 1982, working as a translator for the United Nations. His debut novel, La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (1975), won the Premio de la Crítica in 1976; the Cervantes jury later credited it with inaugurating a new phase in Spanish narrative. Most of his fiction is set in Barcelona and mixes crime and gothic writing, science fiction, satire and...

Characters

Onofre BouvilaProtagonist

An impoverished immigrant who starts as a distributor of anarchist propaganda and a street vendor, and rises to the top of financial and criminal power in Barcelona.

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