Barcelona is just a captivating city. Perhaps this is exactly why for centuries an enormous choice of writers have let themselves be studied in by its beauty. Therefore it’s turned into a literary city: its magic, its charm, its different cultures… Who has never read a text inspired by Barcelona? Already in the nineteenth century the city was a worship center for many writers. The French writers Carce, Bourget, Pieyre de Mandiargues and Genet, and the Catalans writers Narcis Oller and Antoni Altadill gave us the original Barcelona’s ideologies.  cairns escort

There are so many books based on Barcelona, thtat people don’t distinguish the where begins the real city and where ends the imaginary one. It’s been invented so often times between pages and ink! It is just a network of past and present, glories and miseries, rich people and poor people, hapless and artists, suburban prostitutes and exquisite high class escort girls…

The utmost writers have chosen Barcelona because the cornerstone for his novels: beginning with the original Miguel de Cervantes, who presented Barcelona as the original urban setting in Don Quixote; it have been exalted to the highest level in the verses Joan Maragall and Jacint Verdaguer; even Orwell wrote about any of it as a revolutionary frame; Josep Pla related the facts of its daily live; Jean Genet looked following its dark side and Eduardo Mendoza, Vázquez Montalbán, Carlos Ruiz Zafón or Juan Marsé gave it a international prestige.

The city has stolen the center and the pen of the finest writers. Therefore, most novelists do not have enough to call home in the city, but they’ve had to reinvent it utilizing their pens. privategirls cairns

What could have been of the Raval neibourhood minus the famous detective Pepe Cravalho (by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán)? And think about the Gracia quarter minus the books of Mercè Rodorera? Who has not shared the exploits of the characters of Eduardo Mendoza? Thanks to all or any these writers Barcelona comes with a strong literary web woven with threads of ink. For the literature lovers it is just a real pleasure to walk the important thing streets of the city through the “literary tours” that some agencies offer…

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