The Face of Spain

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Gerald Brenan returned to Spain in 1949 for the first time for the reason that Civil War. He was once made up our minds to see what had transform of the country he loved, to speak to atypical people and to experience life in small towns unvisited by foreigners. He had earlier lived in a remote village in the Sierra Nevada now he returned to a land in the grip of famine where guerrilleros roamed the mountains and thousands of people were reduced to living in caves.

Whether looking for his friend Lorca’s unmarked grave, musing on the history of the great mosque in Córdoba and ancient synagogues in Toledo or chatting to provincial shopkeepers, Brenan was once unfailingly perceptive. Even if shadowed by police informers and harangued by Francoist priests, he was once undeterred, and this witty and humane account of his talk over with illuminates a chapter of Spanish history that remains almost unknown. Franco’s regime has now vanished, but its ghosts continue to haunt Spain. When they were alive, no person described the ogres and their sufferers more vividly than Gerald Brenan.


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