Volume 39, Number 11 · June 11, 1992
Homage to Catalonia
By David Gilmour
Barcelona
by Robert Hughes
Knopf, 573 pp., $27.50
Barcelonas
by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, translated by Andy Robinson
Verso, 210 pp., $34.95
One hundred years ago a British traveler described Barcelona as 'combining the business of mill and shop, of warehouse and dock…of Liverpool and Manchester in one.' The comparison was in fact a compliment to the Catalan city, for its port was smaller and less efficient than Liverpool's while its factories could not compete with Manchester's: indeed, they survived only because Spain had the highest tariffs in Europe.
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