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YEGEN: A SPANISH PILGRIMAGE.(following in Gerald Brenan's footsteps)(Critical Essay)
I HAVE NEVER SEEN a more beautiful country than this Spain," the English writer Gerald Brenan wrote in December 1919. He had just spent two months walking the mule tracks across the Alpujarra mountains, suffering from dysentery and being bitten by bedbugs and fleas. Finally, he found a house to rent in the remote village of Yegen. "In such a country one can breathe." It was to be his home for the next fifteen years.
While in southern Spain I am determined to make a pilgrimage to Yegen. A bus leaves Granada every evening--winding its way up the mountains, passing through many of the remote villages including Yegen. It's a four-hour journey.
The Spanish ...
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...Lytton Strachey, Holroyd intersects his biographical critique of Gerald Brenan's interaction with Strachey. The subtitle of the essay, "Bloomsbury, Biography, and Gerald Brenan," describes the project, but unlike the essay, the title...
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...s passionate complexities has pulled forth fine writing from foreigners as diverse as George Borrow, George Orwell and Gerald Brenan. The crossroads of Moor, Jew and Christian; the cradle of conquistadores; the battleground of enlightenment and reaction...
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...Valencia). Telfono: 96 316 03 00. Fax: 96 390 18 82. Especialidades: Neumticos, mecnica rpida y sonido. Rapicar C/ Gerald Brenan, 18. Pol. Guadalhorce. 29003 Mlaga. Telfono: 952 24 15 53. Fax: 952 23 22 34. Especialidades: Neumticos y mecnica...
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...matters Hispanic. Not only did he write on Ireland and Spain for the Monitor, but he became the man to ask (along with Gerald Brenan) if an editor needed something on Spain for a review or an anthology. Yet he was more than a hack; that would be a serious...
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant Beddie, Francesca December 1, 1999 700+ words
...evidence is put aside and a judgment made, not about the facts but about their meaning. It is perhaps for this reason that Gerald Brenan believes that "You can't get at the truth by writing history; only novelists can do that". Perhaps it is also why the...
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