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Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain. Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth , a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War , and for a mainly autobiographical work South from Granada: Seven ...
Jun 30, 2024 · Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and "South from Granada" depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War.
Jan 24, 1987 · Gerald Brenan, a British author who wrote on Spanish history and culture, has died of heart failure, his doctor said today. He was 92 years old.
Jun 27, 2024 · Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience.
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Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE was an Anglo-Irish writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village.
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- January 19, 1987
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The Spanish Labyrinth (full title: The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War) by Gerald Brenan, is an account of Spain's social, economic, and political history as the background of the Spanish Civil War.
High in the Alpujarras mountains in southern Spain, the memory of the British writer Gerald Brenan lives on among villagers. The author, known as “don Geraldo”, is remembered as much for his...
