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Spain’s literary giants are lost in English translation

Nick Lyne: Three cheers for Javier Marías for making it into Penguin Modern Classics: the first Spanish writer to do so since Federico García Lorca. Isn’t it about time the English-speaking world woke up to the Spanish literature of the last 75 years?

An indisputable criterion of success for any novelist is when Penguin Modern Classics signs up your backlist, especially when it’s for a five-figure sum. Which is what has happened to Javier Marías. The 60-year-old Spanish writer, whose latest title, The Infatuations (Los enamoramientos), will be published in English in early 2013, joins an exclusive group of Spanish writers in Penguin’s catalogue: Cervantes, Quevedo, Jacinto Benavente, and Lorca. Yes, that’s it. Four writers: the first two of whom died in the 17th century, the next in 1954; although he stopped writing long before that. For Penguin, and most US and... 3 Comments / Read More »

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Gibson’s undimmed passion for Lorca

Guy Hedgecoe: Irish writer Ian Gibson is obsessed by Federico García Lorca and over the last 30 years has become one of the world’s best-known Hispanists. But as the 75th anniversary of his death is commemorated, Gibson admits that the mysteries surrounding the poet remain as alive as ever.... 3 Comments / Read More »

Revisiting Laurie Lee’s Spain

Guy Hedgecoe: It is 20 years since the completion of Laurie Lee's classic autobiographical trilogy, ‘Red Sky at Sunset’. His descriptions of travels and war in Spain may hark back to the first half of the 20th century, but they remain fresh and insightful today.... 3 Comments / Read More »

A literary trip through Toledo’s historical labyrinth

Mozárabe style on display in Toledo's Iglesia de San Lucas.

Dermot Corrigan: Visiting the Manchegan capital accompanied and guided by the opinions of some formidable Hispanists lent a short tour around the city a rich flavour and revealed plenty of surprises.... 2 Comments / Read More »

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