2023-04-23 19:06:15
A authentic citizen tide ha taken Barcelona from early in the morning. The human flood, full of books and roses, has turned the streets of the center and the neighborhoods into the party that the city expected, after three years of pandemic restrictions and the storm of the previous edition. The crowds, but also the joy and the desire to celebrate, have marked the beginning of the day that some veteran writers -who, like the youngest, have gotten up early to carry out the traditional book signing- have defined as “the best Sant Jordi in years“.
The main stage of this bustling Sant Jordi in 2023 has been the reissued literary ‘superilla’, which has already been rehearsed in 2022. This year’s, a true epicenter of writers’ firms and crowds, has grown by 10% and has been extended to the 154,000 square meters (a space that is equal to 22 soccer fields). It has also added 300 more book stands than last year and has expanded its location to Rambla and the lower part of Gran de Gràcia street. A record Sant Jordi.
Queues to get signatures
From early in the morning the queues have begun to swirl around the literary stalls. One of the figures that has created the most expectation around him has been the film director Pedro Almodovar, who has arrived in Sant Jordi with ‘The Last Dream’, a book that compiles 12 stories written at different times in his life.
“I am very excited, before this crowd celebrating friendship and reading,” said the man from La Mancha, full of joy. Authors such as Xavier Bosch, Dolores Redondo, Alice Kellen, Carlos Porta or the comic collective the cassock, together with writers like Maria Barbal, Marta Orriols, Enrique Vila-Matas o Javier Cercas.
From the ‘show’ to reflection
Likewise, before eleven in the morning there were already long lines to receive the signature of the television angel martin y Sandra Barneda or the very young poet Bird of Edenwhile there were many children who wanted to be photographed with a character like Geronimo Stiltonwhich today has left the pages of the books in which it stars to acquire human volume.
At other points, although equally very crowded, it invited reflection calm down For example, the eshowin the booth of the florist Maria Ponsàby the singer-songwriter Lídia Pujolwho has interpreted the work “The ceremony of Light“, at a time when” the system tries to bring out the worst in us, when what we need is to love and be loved.
It should be noted that, unlike in the last two years, on this occasion practically masks are not seenalthough there are those who, in the face of the crowds of the day, prefer to be farsighted.
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