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A radiant spring day in the course of the week with the relaxed individuals after the Easter holidays, half a thousand writers thrown into the road with their works beneath the arm, and a spectacular taking part in subject – the central axis of the town sown of books of books and roses and become a brilliant pedestrian island to which they might not entry even bicycles and scooters – have been conjugated to transform this Sant Jord to Barcelona right into a day Round, document. After a number of years of meteorological uncertainty and political restlessness, the good occasion of the e-book and the rose has been deployed within the Catalan capital with all the enjoyment, magnificence and big participation that convert the celebration into a real and wonderful miracle.

Since the morning the town has bustled individuals, and vacationers and premises have combined in massive human floods that circulated up and down by the immense territory of paper and flowers banned to site visitors. On his heads, along with the blue sky, nameless banners that if you happen to entertained your self in studying dragged you to the world of surprise and thriller of literature and legend: “That was a day of sun and people in the street. The city stopped in the middle of roses and books that exercised from banners of love. But not everyone believed in the magic of such a simple gesture. In the end, some we learn that the words do not hear. Yeah”.

The sunny festive day, for which the city’s sources have opened like that of the Gran Vía, was paradoxically in the shadow of two lucuitous disappearances: that of Mario Vargas Llosa and that of Pope Francis. San Jordi has not seemed to pay much attention to the first and instead the second has marked the celebration: one of the best -selling books has been God’s madman at the end of the worldor as a lady “the book of the Pope” asked, the work of Javier Cercas focused on the deceased pontiff. Long queues have been formed for the writer to sign his book, and he has done it with great trade and dedication, literally rolling up.

Posts to select among the elements that make up the party, the tail of fences would be the best: the comments in it went from the praise to the book and the writer to aim the fate that the author has had with the timing. “They have done the perfect campaign,” he considered a reader who pointed out not only the coincidence of the death of Pope Bergoglio but the promotion of dialogue with President Salvador Illa on the eve of the Diada. “Beatus Illa,” someone contributed ironically. “Francisco’s first miracle,” added another firm candidate. “It seems that we advance, I see white smoking.”

Among all libraries in the central area of ​​the city, crowded until it looks metro stations in peak time, the center of Mallorca Street has highlighted – which has coined the phrase “Many Things Can Happen in a Book” – for a gastronomic innovation: they’ve made Paella immediately. The complete bookstore smelled to the succulent rice that was served within the nice terrace in command of the Baldomero (15 euros plate and drink). In the library cubicles a complete squad of authors congregated lengthy tails for the agency. Sergi Pàmies, Irene Solà, Milena Busquets … The Wisdom of Borja de Riquer and Ramon Andrés, the poetry of Luis García Montero and the Classic Underground of Nazario had been co -headed. Cola additionally towards Santiago Posteguillo on a Gràcia experience invaded by a joyful human marabunta. The novelist defined that he has completed the third installment of his collection about Julio César. “See you in Germania,” he greeted between signatures and asking if it was worth it, to document Cleopatra, visit the excavations of Taposiris Magna, along with Alexandria.

A lot of Egyptian debate also in the booth of the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona, ​​with a true agglomeration of Egyptologists and Egyptophils signing: Nacho Ares, Tito Vivas … José Miguel Parra, with a new book, offered data on the great pyramid to Antonio Cabanas for his next novel. On the same street Valencia, a woman read her hand (another form of reading) and another wandered dressed in fairy. A grandmother and grandson bought horror books at the Editorial stop La Library of Carfax, of Ominoso Name. “People purchase our style even when they make quite a lot of solar,” they said. In the position of Edhasa they waited for Pilar Sánchez Vicente, a brand new winner of the Historical Novel Award, hoping that he would go to sign characterized by Guerrera Astur.

Long lines in front of Irene Montero (with a red sweater that vindicates the blood of the dragon), Manolo García, Marius Serra, Julia Navarro and to Borja Vilaseca, who jumped to the success of the personal development literature after not having much as a goalkeeper of the soccer team of the Catalan writing of El País. The city’s advertising lollipops have been used to place messages related to the party. “The books make you fly,” says a dump sign. “No one makes you a case and also you deserve it,” says a self -shaped writing specialist. “You are 300 phrases of getting wealthy and having as a lot intercourse as you need.” Here is a hitch flag for literature … and then you go and write from the Pope.

In search of the perfect rose, another sine qua non of the party, it is difficult not to stop at The Flower House booth, which are advertised with the sign “Here we do trio” but refer to the romantic rose, the traditional and the premium. In the plantisserie they offer eternal roses, such as those of beautiful and the beast. Japanese japanese tourists of teleobjectives and Rosas photographed the Pedrera, who looks a band with the legend “Happy Sant Jordi”, as if shooting her. In any case, and although it is of course taste, the perfect rose is that of Au Nom de la Rose, a classic.

The perfect dragon? They have been seen throughout the city. Of stuffed most, in combination with books and roses. A walker took his dog disguised as a dragon. Is lovely to Pizzania chronicles by Joan Antoni Martin Piñol, which flies in the Flamboyant booth. But the perfect is undoubtedly the one that I find in Il Café de Francesco in a pause. A couple who drinks coffee has left a rose on the bar with the slogan “loopy for you”, a paper bag of the Taifa bookstore and a small box in which it puts on a “dragon” label and another “Who says you cannot have a dragon at home?”. I go without asking what it contains: the perfect dragon.

Phrase listened to the step on the scenario of the Being, and that leaves its place: “I’ve seen a seagull with a pink factor within the beak and I’ve believed that it was a rose and I discovered it very lovely and symbolic. It was a lifeless dove.” For his part, one of the few foreign authors, Pierre Lemaitre, who lived his first Sant Jordi signing his new, The wide worldit has been stunned. “Unforgettable,” he said surprised by “the unimaginable vitality” emanating from readers, “so pleasant and sufferers.”

The perfect book will be different for each one, but who signs has not been able to stop taking a copy of Aunt Julia and the writer In pocket format and read the first sentence with emotion: “At that distant time, I used to be very younger and lived with my dad and mom in a fifth white partitions on Ocharán Street, in Miraflores.” Go for you, Mario. In a more festive atmosphere I have done with Tyrannosaurus, an unexpected title of Douglas Preston; The smile of sharks, of Gádor Muntaner, the girl who nothing with them; And a sensational novelty, The Einstein Vendettaby Thomas Harding, the retaliation of the Nazis about Einstein’s family, specifically his cousin.

The excellent agency is the one which locations me, with dedication, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón in its shifting e-book Linen For a pal and adolescence novieta, on the times of the summer time holidays and the seashores of San Salvador and Comarruga. Nothing prettier than bridge in an historical love story. That can be Sant Jordi.