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General-Skin6201 on April 26, 2026 3:19 pm Belle Epoch by Dominique Kalifa. Dawn of the Belle Epoch and Twilight of the Belle Epoch by Mary McAuliffe
Th0ma5_F0wl3r_II on April 26, 2026 3:22 pm You might like to try Arturo Barea’s *The Forge*. It’s set in Madrid, not Barcelona, but covers the narrator’s childhood and youth in the early 1900s. The translation I’ve got (by his Austrian wife, Isla) is sharp, clear and evocative of the time and place.
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Belle Epoch by Dominique Kalifa. Dawn of the Belle Epoch and Twilight of the Belle Epoch by Mary McAuliffe
You might like to try Arturo Barea’s *The Forge*.
It’s set in Madrid, not Barcelona, but covers the narrator’s childhood and youth in the early 1900s.
The translation I’ve got (by his Austrian wife, Isla) is sharp, clear and evocative of the time and place.