Hemingway and Cervantes are among the great novelists who bridge Spain in pursuit of thrills, sheds, detective adventures and sagacity
* More literary trips … to Italy and France
I grew up in Montreal- and London owns a big piece of my mettle- but my house is Barcelona, where I’ve lived for 20 times. Spain is a motley country, in its landscapes, communications, culture and cuisine, but in compiling such lists I became aware that so much of its literature comes from Madrid and the north of the country. Perhaps it’s too hot down south for tale writing? The roll is personal and not at all exhaustive, and in a few cases events dictated by what’s available in translation. But each of these notebooks will move you to a time and neighbourhood in this fractious, variegated, rile but endlessly winsome country.
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