Bücher von Gerald Brenan

SÜDLICH VON GRANADA3. Auflage, ISBN 3-928172-51-4Der Engländer Gerald Brenan lebte von 1920 bis 1934 mit Unterbrechungen in einem Dorf in den Alpujarras. Er bekam Einblick in Alltag, Gewohnheiten, Glauben und Aberglauben der Menschen. In sehr offener Weise beschreibt er die Bewohner und ihre archaischen Lebenszusammenhänge. Virginia und Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington und andere Autoren aus dem Bloomsbury-Kreis besuchten ihn in den andalusischen Bergen und werden mit spitzer Feder skizziert."Wenn ich der spanischen Landschaft gegenübertrete, so tue ich es mit dem inneren Widerstreit und der Zerrissenheit Brenans: von einem ästhetischen und zugleich kritischen Standpunkt aus, als aktives Subjekt und als distanzierter Beobachter." Juan Goytisolo

Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to see the issues in Spanish politics objectively, whilst bearing witness to the deep involvement which is the only possible source of much of this richly detailed account. As a literary figure on the fringe of the Bloomsbury group, Gerald Brenan lends to this narrative an engaging personal style that has become familiar to many thousands of readers over the decades since it was first published.

Gerald Brenan is well known for his 'expository' works on Spanish history and literature, and, in this 1975 book, returns to an early interest in the Spanish mystics to produce an absorbing study of St John of the Cross, one of the foremost of Catholic mystics and poets.

A paperback of Gerald Brenan's account of Spanish literature from Roman times to the present, which has won praise from every quarter for its original and enthusiastic approach, its wide-ranging scholarship and elegant style. First published in paperback in 1976, this book remains a useful study of Spanish literary history.