![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, without the effort – and the books – that the literary critic turned Perucho’s guardian angel has dedicated to the writer from the Gràcia neighbourhood, we would perhaps have only been left with the conservative, misunderstood and old-fashioned image that Perucho nurtured in the last years of his life.īecause, as Guillamon discovered in her essay Joan Perucho i la literatura fantàstica – when, as a young man, he delved into the work of Tomàs Safont’s literary father (nothing to do with the author of this review) –, Perucho had not always been the superb sceptic surrounded by incunabula, “in love with old things” and “converted to modern art, which he openly criticised”. Perucho was lucky, however, to have a curator like Julià Guillamon, brimming with enthusiasm and with the ability to make necessity a virtue. This book, published by Barcelona City Council, is added to the bibliographic list on the history of publishing in Catalonia that Julia Guillamon has been building, exhibition by exhibition, book by book, in conjunction with the city’s libraries.Īs if it were a kind of apocalyptic novel, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken its anger out on the celebration of the Year of Joan Perucho, approved by the Generalitat Government of Catalonia to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the author of Les històries naturals. Perucho the pop editor is who is described in Joan Perucho i les edicions pop. ![]()
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