SPANISH & CATALAN LANGUAGE AUTHORS
NARRATIVA
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- Xuan BELLO
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- Juan BONILLA
- Dolors BORAU
- Javier CALVO
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Pedro FEIJOO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Antonio GARCÍA ÁNGEL
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Menchu GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Lourdes IGLESIAS
- Sebastià JOVANI
- Use LAHOZ
- Sonia LAREDO
- José Carlos LLOP
- Pedro MAIRAL
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Miguel MENA
- Cristina MORALES
- Fabiola MORALES
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Emma RIVEROLA
- Félix ROMEO
- Fernando ROYUELA
- Màrius SERRA
- Jordi SOLER
- Ramon SOLSONA
- Andrés TRAPIELLO
- David TRUEBA
- Ángela VALLVEY
- Ignacio VIDAL-FOLCH
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI
José Carlos LLOP
En la ciudad sumergida
RBA, 2010
(In the Submerged City) José Carlos Llop rescues a city that no longer exists – Palma de Mallorca in the 60s and 70s- confronting it with its 21st Century counterpart, where the climate is becoming tropical and Miquel Barceló’s sea creatures invade the cathedral. Llop, in this pages, traces the sentimental memory of Palma de Mallorca back to when Jean Seberg and Robert Graves were strolling round its streets; when Llorenç Villalonga would spend his days in the Café Riskal; the American marines were on patrol and Lou Reed’s music could be heard –in certain bars- in the small hours of the morning. A city of Palma that was also the scenario of the slow death of the local nobility; with tourism altering the «natural» order of things. A subtle, complex and cultivated panoramic of the city that was; now buried beneath the city that succeeded it.
- 10 reprints
(Spain, RBA); (France, Jacqueline Chambon/Actes Sud)
“Elegant and delicate, this book makes you want to catch the first plane to Mallorca.” AL. F., Livres Hebdo
«Somewhere between erudite prose, novel, poetry and a sentimental memoir. A captivating plunge into a city of Palma no longer exists.» Miguel Dalmau, Culturas de La Vanguardia
«Surprisingly entertaining, this book by José Carlos Llop mixes biography and minimal history, sentimental evocation, gossipology and literary evaluations. One of the most personal books by José Carlos Llop.» José Manuel Benítez Ariza, El Cultural
«In the Submerged City, the latest and most beautiful book about Palma De Mallorca by José Carlos Llop, the most elegant man writing in literature today.» Arturo Pérez-Reverte
«The precision in his wording is this writer’s motto when he describes his observations on reality. Llop has written a beautiful elegy o a city, his own city, of what it might have been, or what it is, according to him.» Javier Goñi, El País
«A subjugating book, persuasive and solidly structured.» Anna Caballé, ABC
«A beautiful book. A feast.» Jordi Puntí, El Periódico
«In the tradition of Brodsky and Venice, or Pamuk and Istanbul » Nuria Azancot, El Cultural