Meeting Benches World art in all forms
The atmosphere of a country, and that of a nation, is also made of its language. Only by reading, you can “feel” what the eyes do not see. Visiting Spain, you can read this novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán: The Pianist. This is “The Meeting Benches way”: a perfectly proportioned man, created by Leonardo da Vinci, correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life.
THE PIANIST > A reflection on the end of ideology and the fate of the losers and winners. In the Barcelona of today, on the bar and its “Ramblas”, dialogues and situations surround the existence of everyone, including that of middle-aged intellectuals. Page after page, the figure of the protagonist (a musician), speaks of a part of himself, living and walking in the streets of the city. The Spanish Civil War, was the dress rehearsal of the story that we read in the books, the Spain of this pianist, tells you the life of a quiet hero.
http://www.amazon.it/The-Pianist-Manuel-Vazquez-Montalban/dp/0704326892
