Cajal Dani is a former militant libertarian whom obsessive and permanent record of the past does not allow you to live the present in a stable and full, and always has the feeling of needing something or exceeded it. And this state of mind moves to the vision of the city. A critical and nostalgic, wistful, even the bad moments lived. This look back the protagonist, already in full maturity (at least in a "mature age") leads, and the reader with him to the bombing of the city during the civil war years of shantytowns, the funeral record Castle Montjuïc to Poblenou punk era and Olympic transformations. "Do not look back" is a critical view of the changes that the city experienced in the nineties, criticism quite obvious where it came from, a disillusioned anarchist Poblenou, one of the neighborhoods that were most transfigured the fal Olympic era works.
The beginning of the novel -the author adverteix- it is an undisguised tribute to Juan Marse and inspired by the description of the city from the top of the hill Rovira, who saw a "Últimas conTeresa afternoon."
The city now grows under the feet like a crushed snail. The wind whistling between the antennas feels even more powerful than the sound of the streets, the intensity of the sirens or horns of cars arriving up here as background music, but alien steady monotone. The city grid, like an army of trained soldiers, staging a large theater, is still a joke to the general urban chaos, the Champ de Mars where the sky is free or occupied by aircraft seeking the runways Prat and police helicopters do not stop crossing views to which they m'incrementa myopia. On the left, chimneys citybeat Besos little citybeat beyond Poblenou my native district; right away, the airport runways. And here I would like estaquirot among the ruins of the bomb defending citybeat Barcelona as I have loved amid bombs, desolation and chaos. This has been my luck? Is this a romantic mentality? Trifles.
The deposit of Mount Carmel is still more abandoned remains of the bomb. Now they say it will eventually demolish all. Who bothers voyeuristic and untidy Mount Carmel? From the outset, fell huts and houses that did not have plans. Now that the attack could not be settled in 1992. Because of the Olympics, then hurry, they had to prove that Barcelona was a civilized city. They could not climb a wall as it did for the 1929 Universal Exhibition in Montjuïc citybeat so visitors would not see the huts of the workers who had built the pavilions. Currently, all depends on communications and nothing better than a mountain that no one wants to install citybeat antennas. The pretext will be the gazebo, the politically correct excuse citybeat to end the holes filled with graffiti and obscenities, citybeat and the scales before moving between buildings soiled. They save something, all of us?
This dirty bomb could be dropped as the Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. First he tried to defend the city from German and Italian planes bombing ships and Franco. He must have received many impacts of bastards who punish the city for three years. Just see how many potholes still remain citybeat at the top of the mountain citybeat Pelada, Sister Carmel, back to the right. Then the fortification of the bomb was to be the core shelter the poorest people who had come looking for luck. Around citybeat the bomb, it upward hundreds of shacks that was becoming one of the largest camps in Barcelona. Built buildings at night because the police did not prevent. Where now is that people? They prospered? Catalanised have? They have created a family? Yes. That was the goal: the family, perpetuated, take a corner in the world, having a niche property to be able to archive the silence between the four bones in both arthritic work.
In the background, between citybeat the polluted haze, the Montjuic, a heavy day of early autumn in which difficulty breathing and the heat is intense, but it can distinguish the cemetery but only Olympic ring, with the tower and the outline of sports citybeat halls. A cemetery should be well hidden in the city. This is only seen from the same mountain from sea or from the road Morrot on the coast. Cal hide mammoth cemetery because
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