The city works

The city in works Ibarz Mercè, Barcelona, Quaderns Crema, 2002
This book of stories baffles the reader. Faced with what may seem a mere portrait on Barcelona and its inhabitants, we can find an intimate reflection on the situation of human society today, yes, urban. Thus, we observe the delicacy of the story “The fragility of the walls,” a carefully prepared discussion on the boundaries between people, this time the neighboring walls. A feeling, that of the border, which has often focused Ibarz prose, like on the set (1992). It is this willingness to go beyond constructing three stories of great significance that the author herself explained shortly after its publication, “did not interest me say my opinion about the dramatic changes of Barcelona in the late nineteenth century, nor the years of the Civil War or the war. Not even the changes brought about following the Olympics, this great epic of propaganda that the city lives ever since. I write from my experience and Barcelona is no propaganda. More well hidden and explore a Barcelona daily survivor. ”
There are several parallels in the construction of three stories that give a fairly homogeneous character perspectives employed. Thus, the three protagonists need the complicity of three friends who reunite in times of crisis. The three stories of the book is a hymn to memory, the shared past between the characters. The three stories are located in different areas of a city under construction, where we observe the common existence of decorative borders. Like this there are so many other examples that the reader can easily catch. In short, this is a different book, poetic, minimalist, in which the past becomes the present with strokes of memories. A stroll through Barcelona staff of Ibarz, within the limits-again, the concept of boundary-of the Old City (The Citadel, the market of Sant Antoni and Eixample) offered a proper coloring of the works pictorial.