I had not thought of Don Quixote as an historical novel, which is clearly
a categorical error on my part. My wife is currently reading Homage of
Catalonia, so I am second in line. 17th, 18th century anyone? 19th?
mike
On 8/3/05, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
>
> what about Orwell's Homage to Catalonia?
> not the kind of thing that you were asking about, really, but it does
> intersect in other ways with interests of this group (not just political
> in a partisan sense, but in terms of representation, mediation, etc.)
>
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, David Daniel Preiss Contreras wrote:
>
> > Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela might works as well:
> > http://www.recepty.biz/camilo-jose-cela/
> > http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/Cela-C1am.asp
> > Mike Cole writes:
> >> David's note about readings for discussion reminded me that I am
> looking
> >> for
> >> good suggestions about books to read to gain a deeper understanding of
> >> Spain, its
> >> history, and culture. My favorite way to learn about history is through
> >> good historical novels and I would
> >> really welcome suggestions. There are a ton of interesting historical
> >> novels in English
> >> about England and the Americas, but I know of few about Spain. in the
> >> non-fiction realm a visitor from Spain, Nacho Monter has suggeted
> Pierre
> >> Vilar,
> >> *Spain: A brief history* and I have a book titled *Ornament of the
> World*
> >> about medieval
> >> Spain that looks really interesting. In the novel department I have
> found
> >> only two historical novels, one *Captain Alatriste" by
> >> Perez-Reverte and an old classic that was made into a Hollywood film,
> >> *Captain from Castillo."
> >> There are novels about more recent times, such as Zafon, *A shadow of
> the
> >> wind" set in
> >> Barcellona and *The blind man of Seville* set there, but with an
> >> historical memory that
> >> dates back to the immediate post-civil war days.
> >> Can anyone make other suggestions?
> >> mike
> >
> >
> >
> > David D. Preiss
> > home page: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ddp6/
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