Overview
Una poderosa historia de amor, pasión por el arte, revueltas sociales y venganza en la Barcelona modernista.
Barcelona, 1901. La ciudad vive días de gran agitación social. La oscura miseria de los más desfavorecidos contrasta con la elegante opulencia de las grandes avenidas, donde ya destacan algunos edificios singulares, símbolo de la llegada del Modernismo.
Dalmau Sala, hijo de un anarquista ajusticiado, es un joven pintor que vive atrapado entre dos mundos. Por un lado, su familia y Emma, la mujer que ama, son firmes defensores de la lucha obrera; hombres y mujeres que no conocen el miedo a la hora de exigir los derechos de los trabajadores. Por otro, su trabajo en el taller de cerámica de don Manuel Bello, su mentor y un conservador burgués de férreas creencias católicas, lo acerca a un ambiente donde imperan la riqueza y la innovación creativa.
De este modo, seducido por las tentadoras ofertas de una burguesía dispuesta a comprar su obra y su conciencia, Dalmau tendrá que encontrar su auténtico camino, como hombre y como artista, y alejarse de las noches de vino y drogas para descubrir lo que de verdad le importa: sus valores, su esencia, el amor de una mujer valiente y luchadora y, sobre todo, esos cuadros que brotan de su imaginación y capturan en un lienzo las almas más miserables que deambulan por las calles de una ciudad agitada por el germen de la rebeldía.
Con El pintor de almas, Ildefonso Falcones nos ofrece la poderosa historia de una época convulsa al tiempo que nos brinda una trama emocionante donde el amor, la pasión por el arte, la lucha por los ideales y la venganza se combinan con maestría para recrear una Barcelona, antaño sobria y gris, que ahora se encamina hacia un futuro brillante donde el color y la esperanza empiezan a extenderse por sus casas y sus calles.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAfter selling more than 10 million copies, Ildefonso Falcones returns with a fascinating novel.
A powerful story of love, passion for art, social unrest, and revenge in modernist Barcelona.
Barcelona, 1901. The city is experiencing days of great social unrest. The dark misery of the most disadvantaged contrasts with the elegant opulence of the grand avenues, where some unique buildings already stand out, symbols of the arrival of Modernism.
Dalmau Sala, the son of an executed anarchist, is a young painter caught between two worlds. On the one hand, his family and Emma, the woman he loves, are staunch defenders of the workers’ struggle; men and women who know no fear when it comes to demanding workers’ rights. On the other hand, his work in the ceramics workshop of Don Manuel Bello, his mentor and a conservative bourgeois with strong Catholic beliefs, brings him closer to an environment where wealth and creative innovation reign supreme.
Thus, seduced by the tempting offers of a bourgeoisie willing to buy his work and his conscience, Dalmau will have to find his true path, as a man and as an artist, and move away from nights of wine and drugs to discover what really matters to him: his values, his essence, the love of a brave and feisty woman, and above all, those paintings that spring from his imagination and capture on canvas the most miserable souls who wander the streets of a city shaken by the seeds of rebellion.
With The Painter of Souls, Ildefonso Falcones offers us the powerful story of a turbulent era while providing us with an exciting plot where love, passion for art, the struggle for ideals, and revenge are masterfully combined to recreate a Barcelona, once sober and gray, that is now heading toward a bright future where color and hope are beginning to spread through its houses and streets.
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