Barcecorpus

Check out and contribute to Joan Ducròs’ compilation of literary extracts based in Barcelona (via Carles Mirò). It includes inexplicable exclusions from a similarly themed book I read recently (eg Max Aub), and I’m sure it will shortly add great stuff like self-confessed con-artist Jan Cremer‘s encounter with the Guardia Civil and the prostitutes of the Plaça Reial, just as soon as I can find the damn book.

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