Don Fernando, Or, Variations on Some Spanish Themes
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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1557782695
ISBN13:9781557782694
Release Date:January 1990
Publisher:Paragon House Publishers
Length:268 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"
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A journey worth making
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book, which I have burst upon quite unexpectedly, offered me a wealth of peaceful meditation and subtle joy. Maugham elaborates on his "spanish themes" with a casualness that easily wins the beholder. It can be called in some ways a travel book, recalling the chapters in which he more than alludes to the Spanish way of living, i.e. their eating habits, the look and feel of their cities and so on. Yet, Maugham also shares with his reader the fruits of his long research he conducted on Spaniards of the Golden Age. What I find the most pleasurable in these memoirs is the way Maugham reveals the fact behind the fiction regarding many issues, to name a few; Spanish literature and drama of the Golden Ages, the life and days (and the religious ferver, which he finds nonexistent of) El Greco. At any rate, this book is excellent reading, and reveals between the lines, the sometimes ironic, but never cynical humor of the artist.
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