Spanish Recognitions: The Roads to the Present

Settle, Mary Lee

ISBN 10: 0393020274 / ISBN 13: 9780393020274

Edité par W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004

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Synopsis :

A book of discovery, in which the landscape of Spain, its history, and its people flow together, each explaining the other. Mary Lee Settle, at the age of eighty-two, set off alone to find the Spain she thought she knew from guidebooks, from friends, and even from her own earlier trip there. But, like Columbus on another voyage of discovery, she found somethingmany thingsthat she hadn't even known she was looking for. Winner of a National Book Award for fiction and author of an acclaimed book of travel and history on Turkey, Settle brings to her task the visual equivalent of perfect pitch. She has no interest in tourist destinations; instead she follows, slowly and with no itinerary, the great, traumatic flows in Spanish history: the Moorish conquest from south to north, and the Christian reconquista, several hundred years later in the opposite direction. Those epic struggles, shaped by geography, are the source of the fascinating tensions in the Spanish character, in its art, architecture, and literature, and the author's magical prose puts these gifts in our hands. Map, 12 pages of illustrations.

À propos de l'auteur: Mary Lee Settle won the National Book Award for her novel Blood Ties and was the founder of the PEN/Faulkner Prize. She died in 2005.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Spanish Recognitions: The Roads to the ...
Éditeur : W W Norton & Co Inc
Date d'édition : 2004
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Very Good