Personal Record: 1920-1972
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few lives in the twentieth century were as richly unconventional as that of Gerald Brenan, the British writer who abandoned the expectations of his class to immerse himself in the culture and landscapes of Spain. Personal Record: 1920–1972 chronicles five decades of a life lived on the fringes of literary greatness, spanning his deep friendships with the Bloomsbury Group — including Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf — to his enduring love affair with Andalusia, offering an intimate and unflinching self-portrait of a man perpetually in search of truth and beauty. Brenan writes with the candour of a man who has nothing left to conceal, rendering his memoirs as much a document of an era as a confession of the self. His prose is spare yet luminous, capturing the intellectual ferment of the interwar years and the quiet intensity of rural Spanish life with equal authority. Readers already acquainted with The Spanish Labyrinth or South from Granada will find in these pages the private man behind those celebrated works — and those new to Brenan will discover a voice that is utterly, irresistibly singular.
Author: Gerald Brenan
Format: Paperback
Published: 1920, Cambridge University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few lives in the twentieth century were as richly unconventional as that of Gerald Brenan, the British writer who abandoned the expectations of his class to immerse himself in the culture and landscapes of Spain. Personal Record: 1920–1972 chronicles five decades of a life lived on the fringes of literary greatness, spanning his deep friendships with the Bloomsbury Group — including Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf — to his enduring love affair with Andalusia, offering an intimate and unflinching self-portrait of a man perpetually in search of truth and beauty. Brenan writes with the candour of a man who has nothing left to conceal, rendering his memoirs as much a document of an era as a confession of the self. His prose is spare yet luminous, capturing the intellectual ferment of the interwar years and the quiet intensity of rural Spanish life with equal authority. Readers already acquainted with The Spanish Labyrinth or South from Granada will find in these pages the private man behind those celebrated works — and those new to Brenan will discover a voice that is utterly, irresistibly singular.