He gives it to the window

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lights. To a point? Warning, let's start filming. action! the stage: the Born neighborhood of Barcelona. The characters: professional actors with good props, used to putting themselves in anyone else's shoes: a soldier, per example, of the Santa Eulàlia battalion. A good story, a good script and, very important, an experienced director who is able to explain the chronicle of a city with the hours counted, of a world in the moments before its disappearance. the movie: Barcelona, 10 September 1714. From the high window of the gallery of the manor house on Carrer Montcada, Eulàlia Sorribes observes the city soiled by the smoke from the previous night's fires. The siege has been going on for days, it is difficult for him to resist much, but nestled within the walls, the city, crowded, convulsive, in a climate of exasperation and heroism he tries to maintain his daily rhythm. The pain, the for, mistrust coexists with the desires and hopes of its inhabitants. No one knows for sure what will happen tomorrow. The woman in the window recreates a fundamental chapter of our history: the siege in Barcelona of 1714. But this siege, this mythical recreation of a world on the verge of extinction, it is not a mere nostalgic claim of an unburied past. Sarajevo, New York and so many other cities have also suffered the impact of some dramatic events that, possibly, they have meant the end of a world. In a quiet narrative, but vibrant and committed to memory, Vicenç Villatoro conveys the deepest skin of what that siege meant, because “The Eleventh of September was for many, the end of the world”.Degree in Information Sciences from the UAB, Vicente Villatoro (1957) he was a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia, director of the Catalan Encyclopedia Foundation, director of the newspaper Avui, head of Culture at TV3 and director general of the Catalan Radio and Television Corporation. He describes himself as a writer, journalist and politician - in that order. As a writer, he has published twenty works (The years in the city, cartographies, The July light, The craft of looking, Hotel Europa, The yellow islands, Traitor's memory…) and has received awards in almost every literary genre, from the Sant Jordi Prize of 1981 with the novel Evangeli gris until the Prudenci Bertrana of 2001 by The City of Smoke.