'Babelia' experts review the titles by Pepe Pérez-Muelas, Carlos Barea, Inés Palou, Stephen King, Daniel Clowes and Rafael Chirbes.
Pepe Pérez-Muelas joins the boom in travel books that are being published in Spain. In “Homo Viator” he offers a journey through the history of the discovery of the world, on the backs of travelers and explorers of all eras and origins, from east to west, ending on the Moon. The work is distant from the trends of the genre and combines the experience of historical travelers but also his own.
Real experiences too, but of a social nature, are told in “Ocaña. El eterno Brillo del sol de Castillana.” Carlos Barea brings together several authors to recover the essence of José Pérez Ocaña, artist and LGBTQ activist, a central figure during the Spanish Transition in Barcelona, who arrived from Cantillana (Seville) to the Catalan capital in 1971 to work as a house painter.
