Spain from I to Z. Dali look-alikes, Cervantes' roach, and other stories from an avid Hispanist
Spain from I to Z. Dali look-alikes, Cervantes' roach, and other stories from an avid Hispanist
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The book by Tatyana Pigareva, one of the most famous Hispanists in Russia, great-great-great-granddaughter of Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, is like a play about Spain with interludes in nine acts. This is a captivating performance consisting of various scenes of Spanish life and the author's life with Spain.
The birth of the Prado Museum, the search for portraits of Cervantes, Velazquez's "Las Meninas", the hardships of the Civil War, the avant-garde art of the Franco era, the worlds of Dali and Almodovar. And in the interludes - stories about Spain through the author's memories and various cultural curiosities. The personal in Pigareva's stories is inextricably linked with the professional, because Spain became her life, full of unexpected miracles that shift time and space.
The title of the first chapter begins with the word "History", the last - with the word "Language". But "I" is not limited to History, but only sets a chain of associations: Art, Truth (an attempt to get closer to it), Sincerity, Research... and "I" not only symbolizes Language in all the ambiguity of this concept, but also Clarity or Reality (remembering that "life is a dream"). Each chapter can be read as a separate story. And yet, as we wander from the Reconquista to Almodovar, from a mosaic of themes and eras, from their dialogue, unexpected parallels, echoes and reflections, the image of Spain appears to us. One of the possible, another.
The birth of the Prado Museum, the search for portraits of Cervantes, Velazquez's "Las Meninas", the hardships of the Civil War, the avant-garde art of the Franco era, the worlds of Dali and Almodovar. And in the interludes - stories about Spain through the author's memories and various cultural curiosities. The personal in Pigareva's stories is inextricably linked with the professional, because Spain became her life, full of unexpected miracles that shift time and space.
The title of the first chapter begins with the word "History", the last - with the word "Language". But "I" is not limited to History, but only sets a chain of associations: Art, Truth (an attempt to get closer to it), Sincerity, Research... and "I" not only symbolizes Language in all the ambiguity of this concept, but also Clarity or Reality (remembering that "life is a dream"). Each chapter can be read as a separate story. And yet, as we wander from the Reconquista to Almodovar, from a mosaic of themes and eras, from their dialogue, unexpected parallels, echoes and reflections, the image of Spain appears to us. One of the possible, another.
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