Blogs in March 2022

Permafrost 24th March 2022

Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover, a no-hope employee, and a some-time suicidal student of her own dislocated self. As she tries to break out of the roles set for her by a controlling, overprotective mother, a...

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Barcelona Shadows 24th March 2022

CSI meets Jack the Ripper in early 20th century Barcelona: captivating, scary and genre-breaking. In 1917, Barcelona’s infamous Raval district is alive with outlandish rumours. A monster is abducting and murdering young children. The police are either powerless to...

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The Madness 24th March 2022

Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller’s The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the...

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Private Life 24th March 2022

In 1932 Josep Maria de Sagarra set out to write the great Catalonian novel, an urban antidote to the rural tales and timid missives about folk customs that had previously prevailed in the Catalonian literature. Private Life was the...

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The Book of Barcelona: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City) 25th February 2022

A slighted wife escapes her family in a wealthy neighbourhood for the night and stumbles into the city’s red-light district… The head of security at Barcelona’s container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak into...

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