Barcelona Fantasma: Personas Y Lugares Que YA No Existen - Paperback

by Ramón de España (Author), Sònia Estévez (Illustrator)

An inventory of lost places and friends dead before their time, Barcelona Fantasma constitutes the fragmentary portrait of a city that was and is no longer. Sometimes melancholic, often ironic and hardly ever moralistic --although tinged with a certain friendly fatalism--, Ramón de España reconstructs the underground Barcelona of the seventies and eighties through a series of places and people who are no longer there; "glorious corpses" that once inhabited and adorned the city of literature, cinema, music and, why not, of dipsomania in the most famous slums of the time.

Author Biography

Ramón de España (Barcelona, 1956) has published nearly thirty books, including novels, essays and graphic novels with various cartoonists. In 2004 he released his first film as a screenwriter and director, Haz conmigo lo que quieras, nominated for a Goya for best new director, and he still hasn't given up hope of making his second. A regular presence in the Spanish press since the years of the Transition, he went from the underground and comic magazines to El País and El Periódico de Catalunya. He currently works as a columnist for the digital newspaper Crónica Global. Sònia is a young Catalan designer with a great career. The use of typographies in his illustrations, his color palette and his levels of reading and subjective interpretation create an ideal combination to transmit ideas on any creative book.