Barcelona will host a free talk with author Roger Bastida on Thursday, 18 June, as the Quadern reading club holds its final session before the summer break. The event starts at 19:00 at Toresky studio, Carrer Casp, 6.
Bastida will discuss his historical novel, Passeig de Gràcia, which was a success during the Sant Jordi book festival. The book is set in Barcelona in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and follows the lives of several generations from three families.
Literary critic Ponç Puigdevall said the novel maps “the social grammar of a century”. He also said Bastida makes readers “look inside a magnificent kaleidoscope”, ordered to show the changing face of Passeig de Gràcia and the wider transformations of Barcelona and Catalonia, without melodrama.
Bastida was born in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat in 1990 and has a degree in Art History. He specialises in lifestyles from around 1900, and now lives in Madrid. His work has included historical advising for the series La Templanza, Ena, la reina Victoria Eugenia and Sira, as well as teaching History of Clothing for cinema and television at ECAM.
He has also written La mirada de la sarganta (2017), La llarga revetlla (2020) and Sota l’ombra de la washingtònia (2023). The Quadern club, hosted by Carlota Rubio, is a free and open space for readers and writers to meet. If you want more Barcelona culture coverage, see our Community and Sport pages.
To attend, readers can register online or email quadern@elpais.es with “Club Bastida” in the subject line. The original notice was published by El País Barcelona.
