Homage to the Provinces
Michael Wood, 28 May 1992
Barcelonas
by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, translated by Andrew Robinson.
Verso, 210 pp., £17.95, May 1992,0 86091 353 8 Show More
by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, translated by Andrew Robinson.
Verso, 210 pp., £17.95, May 1992,
Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona
by Temma Kaplan.
California, 266 pp., $30, April 1992,0 520 07507 2 Show More
by Temma Kaplan.
California, 266 pp., $30, April 1992,
“... The funicular railway takes you to the top of the mountain with the strange name: a nonsense word, a child’s burble, Tibidabo. You see the city of Barcelona spread out beneath you; beyond it the Mediterranean. Très beau panorama, the Michelin guide says, as well it may, since the name is not the nonsense word it looks but the Devil’s Latin, part of the sentence in which he offered to Christ the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them: Haec omnia tibi dabo si cadens adoraveris me, ‘All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me ... ”