The Tintablanca publishing house incorporates a new capital, specifically Barcelona, to its careful collection of Travel Books: “The one that every traveler eager to discover the world with an artistic, literary and surprising look wants to have in hand”, they point out from the editorial itself. This title is in addition to those previously published: Madrid, Paris, New York, Rome, London and Berlin. These destinations are “unrepeatable trips” that Tintablanca publishes by the hand of writers and illustrators who know them well. So much so that it is “impossible to stop diving between the pages and places near and far, that overshadow us with the bustle of its squares, its secrets and its lonely streets.”
In the Barcelona travel guide, the writer Carlos Zanon it portrays its “most intimate” city and the artist Lara Costafreda illustrates the “human and cosmopolitan side of this mixed-race, cultured, contradictory capital in a permanent sense of change.” Barcelona is for Carlos Zanón the “mixed and traditional city, multicolored, border, self-absorbed, bilingual, classist and always human, pure sweaty flesh under the expensive perfume or cheap cologne, heart and bones. With Barcelona one cannot be angry for long because everything good or bad that he does is without intention or will. Nervous and electrifying, slutty, arsonist and scary, addicted to lounge romanticism, Wagnerian epics and the endless serial of a bourgeois novel. “
In addition to the one in Barcelona, Tintablanca has to his credit six more titles that are part of this collection of guides on trip, work of writers and illustrators:
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