CategoryBooks
![Llibre: Barcelona feminista 1975-1988. Isabel Segura Soriano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-llibre-bcn-feminista.jpg?itok=FuCuDR7M)
Her name was María Ángeles Muñoz and she was the cause of the rebellious catchphrase of solidarity a multitude of women also adopted: ‘I am an adulteress, too”. This catchphrase ‘not...
![Llibre: Gent de ploma i marabú. Thais Morales i Carme Pollina](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-llibre-ploma.jpg?itok=xImtHqXP)
A fascinating transgressive joy pervades the photographs gathered in this exhaustive round-up of the ‘queer’ Barcelona of the early 20th century to today. All the photographs are quite...
![Llibre: Els límits del Quim Porta, de Josep Pedrals](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-llibre-pedrals.jpg?itok=Su20Fv8O)
Els límits del Quim Porta, a book by Josep Perals, is bound to disturb and hypnotise. The whole book breathes poetry, lyrical sonority, ideas, constant revelation of language,...
![Cover of the book Les arts aplicades a Barcelona by Francesc Fontbona](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/arts_aplicades.png?itok=ksGnOtcS)
Forged iron, ceramics, wood, glass, pavement, coats of arms, clocks, bells… Art historian Francesc Fontbona edited Les arts aplicades a Barcelona (The Applied Arts in Barcelona...
![Cover from the book El cel no és per a tothom by Marta Rojals](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cel_no_es_per_tothom.png?itok=UMX5wIBm)
Marta Rojals has taken on the challenge in the American style, using the raw materials of our own local reality. It’s what we might call the “great Catalan novel”.
![Cover of the book Diumenges a Barcelona by Xavier Theros](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/diumenges_a_barcelona.png?itok=lo4igxxZ)
Writing about Barcelona is a way of recuperating it. This form of resistance has inspired a great deal of literature, be they collections of oral stories, memories or articles on...
![Llibres Col•lecció “Matar el Monstre”](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibres_frankenstein_0.jpg?itok=yO0KfSC8)
Comanegra is celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel with seven new titles in which the monster is present and which are set against great moments in the life...
![Llibre: Barcelonas. Manuel Vázquez Montalbán](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_barcelonas_mvm.jpg?itok=OUpPFMV0)
The book Vázquez Montalbán published in 1987 and which has now been republished in Spanish and translated into Catalan and English would be the ideal book because at the same time as you...
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