Desecrating Gaudí, in Reus

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There is a scene that Oscar Wilde never saw, and that perhaps he could have described better than anyone: that of himself turned into a statue in the heart of London, celebrated by the very institution, the British government, that sentenced him to prison and, ultimately, destroyed him to death. Wilde, the pariah who died in Paris ruined and abandoned because he was gay, is now used as an official symbol of British diversity and the excellence o…