by Xavier Benguerel · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432000256
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«Icaria, Icaria» is the historical novel by Xavier Benguerel, published by Planeta in hardback (290 pages, in Spanish).
The novel crosses the utopia of Étienne Cabet, founder of Icarian communism, and his dream of building an ideal city in Texas in the mid-nineteenth century, with the anarcho-syndicalist Barcelona of the 1920s, the repression of Martínez Anido and the attack on the Garraf tunnel. Invented characters bring to life that double plane and the failure of the ideal.
Winner of the Planeta Prize 1974, it is the Castilian version made by the author of his Catalan original «Icària, Icària».
For readers of historical fiction interested in utopias, the labour movement and the history of Catalonia.
