
Escrito en el cielo. Madrid imaginada en la literatura (1977-2017)
Alfaguara, 2017 | Written on the Sky
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“It paints a lively portrait of the capital with a series of snapshots that light up an event, a city intersection, a human occurrence, a feeling, a meteorological phenomenon, a popular festivity…” Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural
Synopsis
(Written on the Sky) All of a sudden, it strikes you that your city has turned into a fictional character. Over time, a fair few cities have entered that mythical world, one written without much thought for History and which sets down on paper both the passage of time and the city’s geography and the customs and habits of its inhabitants. Madrid is one such city. Cosmopolitan and modern, a gateway to Latin America, it is a living, breathing entity in perpetual motion. The city where no one is out of place, yet everyone becomes anonymous and invisible, a place in which to hide and a place in which to shine.
The city’s transformation into a character from contemporary fiction, at the hands of many of Spain and Latin America’s foremost writers, makes for a thrilling story that had yet to be told.
Written on the Sky does so in the form of over one hundred and fifty fragments by another hundred and fifty or so authors, extracts from stories and novels published between 1977 and 2017, over the forty years of Spain’s democracy.
The finest tribute literature could pay to a city.
- Demasiado no es suficiente
- Mi precio es ninguno
- Yo fumo para olvidar que tú bebes
- Con las suelas al viento
- El capitán Miguel y Juan el Navegante
- Como los pájaros aman el aire
- El capitán Miguel y el misterio de la daga milanesa
- El juego sigue sin mí
- Un amigo así
- La jauría y la niebla
- Por el camino de Ulectra
- Nieve al sol
- Dos en una
- Campos enteros llenos de flores
- La primavera corta, el largo invierno
- Qué poca prisa se da el amor
- La hija del coronel
- El chico que imitaba a Roberto Carlos
- Mi precio es ninguno
- Y decirte alguna estupidez, por ejemplo, te quiero
- Algunas chicas son como todas
- Qué te voy a contar
- La colección «Pisco»
MB Authors
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Xenia GARCÍA
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ramon MAS
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Amarna MILLER
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Carmen ROMERO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI