Folio Society - SOUTH FROM GRANADA - Gerald Brenan -illus. with photographs

Description: Born in Malta while his father was serving there in the British Army, Brenan did not enjoy a good relationship with his father. Educated at a boarding school in England,(which he hated), at 18 he circumvented his father's wishes for him to go to Sandhurst Military Academy to prepare for a military career and left England with a friend intending to walk to China. They got as far as Bosnia before World War One intervened and Gerald served in the military. After the war he moved to Spain, and rented a house in the province of Granada. Living there, he had contacts with the Bloomsbury Group of English writers--his best friend Ralph Partridge, Partridge's first wife Dora Carrington (with whom Brenan had an affair), and the the other member of Partridge's menage à trois, the writer Lytton Strachey. A later, and more serious romantic involvement was with Brenan's maid, with whom he had a daughter. Between socializing with other 4x-patriates, Brenan wrote about the locals. A sympathetic observer, he is objective but non-judgmental, even of his despicable landlord. We learn about the traditional rituals surrounding marriage. When the social rules were broken, the community, rather than a judicial institution, to mete justice, such as a woman who had been taken advantage receiving in recompense a larger allotment of olive oil. A fascinating look at a different culture as seen through the eyes of an iconoclastic foreigner.

Price: 20 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

End Time: 2024-09-01T23:34:41.000Z

Shipping Cost: 8.13 USD