Spain from I to Z. Dali's Doubles, Cervantes's Vobla and Other Stories of an Inveterate Hispanist
The new book by Tatiana Pigareva, a renowned Spaniard, art historian, writer, philologist, journalist, traveler, and popular lecturer. The story is accompanied by more than 265 illustrations, including drawings, materials from the author's personal archive, works of art by Spanish artists and much more. When unfolded, the super cover turns into a map of ancient Madrid of the XVII century, the size of 60*60 cm. The book by Tatyana Pigareva, one of the most famous Spaniards in Russia, great-great-granddaughter of Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, is like a play about Spain with interludes in nine acts. It is an exciting performance consisting of various scenes of Spanish life and the author's life with Spain. The birth of the Prado Museum, the search for Cervantes' portraits, Velázquez's Meninas, the hardships of the Civil War, the avant-garde art of Franco's time, the worlds of Dali and Almodóvar. 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 has become her life, full of unexpected miracles that shift time and space.
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