Pagan Spain
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ISBN: 0061450197 / Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, October 2023
In this superb work by novelist Richard Wright (1908-1960) he describes his experiences in Spain and his insights into Spain's culture. It was first published in 1957 to muted appreciation. This is a reprint of a 1995 edition featuring an insightful introduction by scholar and author Faith Berry. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption.The Spain Richard Wright visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers in Pagan Spain is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith.
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