This little book is a journey. A narrative journey through space and time in one of the most beloved cities – Barcelona – with the most central Catalan writer of the twentieth century: Marcela Rodoreda. The book’s protagonists are flesh and blood characters, as are the market in the old Gracia neighborhood, the municipal cinema, semi-rural areas where children and stories roam, trains leaving and arriving, a typical bar, apartments and streets: before us is a city that wants to flourish and stand out on European soil. A small detail, a marginal event or a random scene that occurs among people in the city, paints an entire literary world. Marcela Rodoreda captures the elusive essence of Barcelona in her prose. Something that can usually be perceived at dusk or dawn, along with the chirping of the first birds and between the cracks of night and morning, or between afternoon and evening – the time of the changing of the guard in the bars: when the land on which today's Barcelona sits emits its once rustic appearance, and the city shows you its true face. What has been forgotten, what has been abandoned and what the city wants to get back. Scenes from Barcelona is made of beautiful stories about an equally beautiful city. This is a book that asks you for something strange, although perhaps not impossible: reading with your eyes closed.