Introduction : the city as social form -- The bourgeois city -- Imagined city -- Like moths to a lamp : foreigners in Barcelona's red-light district -- A sojourn with the dead -- The divided city and the divided self -- The city of eternal returns -- From the Olympic torch to the universal forum of cultures : the after-image of Barcelona's modernity
Summary
The work traces the development of an urban image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues. The author establishes a literary framework for the evolution of the image of Barcelona's modernity through the 1980s, when the consciousness of modernity took on an ironic circularity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index
