South from Granada
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| Author | Gerald Brenan |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Travel Literature |
| Published | 1957 |
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South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village is an autobiographical book by Gerald Brenan, first published in 1957.
Brenan, a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, settled in Spain in 1920,[1] and lived there on and off for the rest of his life.[2] The book is an example of travel literature, mixing an autobiographical account of his life in Yegen, the village where he found his first home in Spain,[1] with detailed background information about the Alpujarras region of Andalusia. He describes visits to his home by Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Dora Carrington,[3] and also devotes space to Spanish prehistory, particularly the Millaran culture.
Film version
[edit]South from Granada has been adapted into a film, Al sur de Granada (2003), directed by Fernando Colomo. The film includes some biographical material not in the original book.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Nayler, Mark (December 2018). "Gerald Brenan's Yegen, a century on". Sur in English.
- ^ Holland, R. F. (2018). The warm south: how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 235. ISBN 9780300240870.
- ^ Speake, Jennifer, ed. (2003). Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 1119. ISBN 9781579584405.
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