
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Spain
Pepe Carvalho is another detective who likes his food – so much so that there is a book of his recipes, along with more than a dozen novels, written between 1972 and 2000, three years before Vázquez Montalbán’s death. There is also a special tourist route around Barcelona for fans of Carvalho, who knows the seedy side of the city as well as the best restaurants. Political corruption and justice are themes that run throughout, alongside discourses on cultural identity, while two novels focus on sport, Offside and An Olympic Death. Vázquez Montalbán was a diehard Barcelona fan and leftist
芒塔爾班
西班牙
皮普·卡瓦羅是另一位好吃的偵探——這位書中人物的食譜甚至后來(lái)出版成了一本書。作者芒塔爾班自1972年到2000年寫了超過(guò)一打以上的偵探小說(shuō),去世前三年才停筆。他塑造的人物偵探卡瓦羅有成群的粉絲,而在巴塞羅那還有一條因他的故事而知名的特殊旅游路線——卡瓦羅了解這個(gè)城市破敝骯臟的一面,也知道最好的餐館。政治腐敗和公正是作者所有作品中貫穿的主題,還有他對(duì)西班牙文化定位的長(zhǎng)篇討論。另有兩部小說(shuō)是以體育運(yùn)動(dòng)為焦點(diǎn)展開的——《越位》和《奧林匹克之死》。芒塔爾班是巴塞羅那的頑固熱愛者,他還是一個(gè)左派人士。