Il pittore di anime - 9788830452923

Il pittore di anime: Barcellona, 1901. La città attraversa un momento di estrema tensione sociale: la miseria delle classi più umili si scontra con il lusso dei grandi viali, nei quali originalissimi edifici appena sorti o in costruzione annunciano l'arrivo di una nuova e rivoluzionaria stagione artistica, il Modernismo. Dalmau Sala, figlio di un anarchico giustiziato dalle autorità, è un giovane pittore e ceramista che vive intrappolato tra due mondi: da un lato quello della sua famiglia e di Emma Tàsies, la donna che ama, entrambe attivamente impegnate nella lotta operaia; dall'altro, quello del lavoro nella fabbrica di ceramiche di don Manuel Bello, il suo mentore, ricco borghese dalla incrollabile fede cattolica.
Barcelona, early 20th century. Dalmau works as a ceramicist, but he is also an excellent painter. His work allows him to take part in the construction of the most important modernist works of the city. He is engaged to Emma, a cook and waitress but also a political activist, always in the front row during the protests. The two, although still in love, are left due to a series of misunderstandings that arose as a result of a traumatic event: the death of Dalmau's sister under the army's charge, during a general strike. This is how Dalmau, achieved success as a painter, is perpetually struggling with bourgeois and Catholic society, which tends to marginalize and oppose it. Emma, on the other hand, works as a labourer, and - despite the great economic difficulties - never abandons her strong political commitment, becoming a labourer. It was during Tragic Week - the culmination of the great labor riot in opposition to the Spanish colonial war - that Dalmau and Emma meet again. And, amid arrests, trials and fires, they discover that perhaps fate has other struggles in store for them, and an epilogue different from what they had imagined.