La verdadera historia de Gaudí

One hundred years after his death, Gaudí's life remains an enigma. There was an early Gaudí, fiercely anticlerical and bohemian, and later a mystical and visionary one, obsessed for forty years with the utopian project of building the "Cathedral of the Poor" in Barcelona. How can such an evolution be explained? A woman, perhaps? Mario Lacruz offers a compelling narrative interpretation of the Gaudí myth. Originally adapted for film and discovered among Mario Lacruz's many unpublished works, this book confirms the literary stature of a legendary writer (and editor). "Sometimes absolute fidelity to the facts is the greatest infidelity," the author writes at the beginning of the novel, while also considering that "a thwarted love can be the key to an entire existence." Rosa Montero, in turn, writes in her prologue that "Gaudí's ferocity, or that greatness, is at once his glory and his curse." Because he manages to create a lasting and immense body of work, but makes a mess of his personal life."