A new take on the American abroad
Ben Lerner’s novel ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’ deftly explores the neuroses of a young foreigner living in Spain.
Ben Lerner’s novel ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’ deftly explores the neuroses of a young foreigner living in Spain.
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?
Menorca may not be known for producing great thinkers, but that overlooks Albert Camus’s Balearic blood.
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.
The death of novelist Miguel Delibes has robbed Spain of a unique literary voice.
Gerald Martin’s biography of Gabriel García Márquez reveals a little-known side of the Colombian novelist.
