Barcelona, 1910.
A city of light, ambition, and dreams—rising toward greatness.
But beneath its golden surface, something is breaking.
As grand avenues fill with masterpieces of stone and vision, the streets below begin to burn. Workers demand justice. Anarchists take up arms. Veterans return from distant wars, carrying violence back with them. Every corner of the city trembles with change.
Through it all, journalist Narcís Oller watches—and writes.
He follows the lives of those caught in the storm:
a young couple drawn into the fire of revolution,
a war-scarred soldier searching for order in chaos,
and a fading generation of artists, led by Antoni Gaudí, retreating from a world they no longer recognize.
As the years pass, hope turns into fear. Ideals into weapons.
And when power finally changes hands, Barcelona will never be the same again.
The End of Idealism is a sweeping historical novel about a city at the edge of transformation—where beauty and brutality walk side by side, and where the dream of a better future collapses under the weight of reality.