- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846318320
- eISBN:
- 9781846317873
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317873.002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter concentrates on specters of the past that might have haunted the euphoric politics of Barcelona. It presents a brief look at the turbulent history of modern Barcelona. It investigates ...
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This chapter concentrates on specters of the past that might have haunted the euphoric politics of Barcelona. It presents a brief look at the turbulent history of modern Barcelona. It investigates Eduardo Mendoza's La ciudad de los prodigios and its portrait of the historical specters of the Universal Exhibition of 1888 and the International Exhibition of 1929. The link between democracy and the free market in Spain, the consolidation of the new stage of capitalism, and the redefinition of space in postmodernity are analysed. This chapter suggests that Mendoza's novel uncovers the spectralisation of the present.Less
This chapter concentrates on specters of the past that might have haunted the euphoric politics of Barcelona. It presents a brief look at the turbulent history of modern Barcelona. It investigates Eduardo Mendoza's La ciudad de los prodigios and its portrait of the historical specters of the Universal Exhibition of 1888 and the International Exhibition of 1929. The link between democracy and the free market in Spain, the consolidation of the new stage of capitalism, and the redefinition of space in postmodernity are analysed. This chapter suggests that Mendoza's novel uncovers the spectralisation of the present.
