Impressions,
travel and
general accounts
Alistair
Boyd
The Essence of
Catalonia (o/p).
Part-history,
part-travel
book, with
discourses on
various Catalan
themes - food
and drink, art,
literature,
language. A good
general
introduction.
Robert
Hughes
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General
history
Raymond
Carr
Modern Spain
1875-1980 (OUP,
UK/US) and The
Spanish Tragedy:
the Civil War in
Perspective (Weidenfeld,
UK). Two of the
best books
available on
modern Spanish
history -
well-told
narratives.
Felipe...
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The Civil War
Arturo Barea
The Forging of a
Rebel (o/p).
Autobiographical
trilogy taking
in the Spanish
war in Morocco
in the 1920s,
and Barea's own
part in the
Civil War.
Praised by
Orwell, the
books are
published under
the individual
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Art
As well as the
volume listed
below, there
are numerous
individual
studies of
Picasso, Miró,
Dalí and Gaudí.
In Barcelona,
look in the
bookshops in
the Museu
Picasso and
the Fundació
Miró, and in
the Museu Dalí
in Figueres.
John
Richardson
A Life of
Picasso (Pimlico,
UK).
Sumptuously
produced
biography of
Picasso, the
first volume
is an
extremely
readable
account of the
artist's early
years,
covering the
whole of his
time in
Barcelona and
his trip to
the Catalan
Pyrenees.
Catalan
literature and
books about
Barcelona
Bernado Atxaga
The Lone Man
(Penguin,
UK/US). Basque
novelist sets a
well-received
thriller during
the 1982 World
Cup, when two
ETA gunmen hole
up in a
Barcelona hotel.
Victor Català (Caterina
Albert i Paradis)
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