The only inhabitant of a work of art – 05/10/2019

When we come in, most of us can meet a neighbor who has walked the dog or comes back from shopping; with the manager of the building or at most with the postman leaving envelopes in the mailbox or delivery man delivering a pizza that smells of the gods. But she does not. To enter your house, Ana you have to spend your wallet in a scanner and go through metal detectors, welcoming participants, security staff and employees of the Catalunya Foundation, and cross the tides of tourists Chinese, Russian Russians, Americans, Latinos; in short, from anywhere in the world you imagine.

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Because the writer Ana Viladomiu does not live in any department, but on the 4th floor of Casa Milá, or La Pedrera, one of the most famous buildings of Barcelona and the world, the work of the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.

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What will life look like in a declared building? Heritage of humanity, and who is visited by more than 1.2 million tourists a year? His only permanent resident tells in his latest book, logically titled "The Last Neighbor", and in which he remembers the anecdotes of his 30 years of life there, as when his daughters were small and went home with jerseys bath. floats, thermos, containers of food heading for the beach, and the tourists watched them, marveling and incredulous. Or of those times of less security and less paranoia, when Tourists could reach the landing of the stairs and ring the bell to ask if they could come watch or enter the private elevator.

He also mentions curious stories of this exceptional house of the Paseo de Gracia, as during the construction of the Workers Party of the Marxist Unification (POUM) during the Spanish Civil War, as well as the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) . And in a note to the Spanish newspaper El País, he says that he suspects that his own apartment has become one of the dreaded Czechs in Barcelona, ​​linked to detention, torture and death.

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He also has nights when he likes to walk near the building and have fun watching through the large windows the terrace, the stars, the moon. "It gives me a sense of unreality, like to be in a castle or be part of a beautiful story"No wonder, think of one.

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And he mentions the contrast of the constant tide of tourists with the panorama of Sunday afternoon and evening, when the building is deserted – literally, she is the only one who continues to live there – and the strange sensations, and even the fear, which pushes them to cross the empty corridors to some people who visit it.