by Antonio Muñoz Molina · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432211812
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«El Robinson urbano» is the book of chronicles by Antonio Muñoz Molina, published by Seix Barral in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together brief chronicles of everyday life in the city: street scenes, public spaces, and the figure of the walker among strangers. In the opening text, the author frames this gaze within the tradition of the «urban robinsons» of modernity: De Quincey, Poe, and Baudelaire, chroniclers of the crowd and the urban landscape.
El Robinson urbano is the first book by Antonio Muñoz Molina, originally published in Granada in 1984 and reissued in Pamplona in 1988. The edition includes a prologue by Pere Gimferrer.
For readers of contemporary Spanish literature and urban chronicle.
Antonio Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 8 June 1995. He received the 1991 Premio Planeta, the 2013 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for literature.
