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Literatura y guerra civil (1994), and Imprenta moderna (2006). From this dedication have sprouted, among others, essays that are already milestones in the Spanish literary historiography, as for example: Las vidas de Miguel Cervantes (1993), Las armas y las letras. The result is, as one can see, very Rastro-like. The book is divided into a first part where questions of theory are addressed a more personal second and third part that could be added to a “Sentimental guide of the Rastro” and a fourth part full of pictures and a lot of unpublished fragments or those written on purpose for this book, that the author gathered from his diaries -collected in the volumes of his Salón de pasos perdidos [Living room of the lost steps-, and also taken from all the articles and prologues he has written. The readers get to know its people and to understand their lives through their memories and their objects.Ī unique history of the city of Madrid, its tradition and its culture.Īn exceptional book, lavishly illustrated with pictures that review more than 40 years of history. Historia, teoria y práctica, 2018, 376 p.Īndrés Trapiello invites us on a unique journey and creates his personal homage to the Rastro, one of the most emblematic street markets in the world. Other blog posts on Andrés Trapiello (Manzaneda de Torío, León, 1953):Ī 2018 one on his book on Madrid’s flea-market “El Rastro” Ī 2015 one on his version of “Don Quijote” Ī 2013 one on his (ongoing) diary project.Īndrés Trapiello, El Rastro. Spanish national state TV’s “Página 2” book program offers an author interview video (in Spanish). And above all it’s a proclamation of a great virtue that is repeated in this masterful and unique book: the hospitality of those living in Madrid.

This book is also the biography of its author, braided equally with water trips, lower and upper neighborhoods, with kings, republics and dictatorships, splendor and miseries, peace and wars, the “Movida”. The story of a life and of a city, Madrid, narrated in a prodigious, original and passionate manner by someone who arrived there 50 years ago like so many others: trying their luck. «One of the great books of the year.» Alberto Olmos «A precious book, wonderfully written and enormously entertainig.» Mario Vargas Llosa An exciting personal and literary tale on the history of Madrid from its origins to today.