Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain
Language: English
Published by Harcourt Brace, NY, 1992
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- Hardcover
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in dj.; HB, octavo; 352 pages.
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- Title
- Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain
- Author
- Nooteboom, Cees
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace, NY
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0151001979
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001972
- Edition
- 1st US ed
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Review
The book is never a straightforward journey, but instead distils Nooteboom's lifelong fascination for Spain through some remarkable meditations on life, art, history and religion. There is scarcely a page which is not thought-provoking. The passages on Velazquez and Seville-based artist Zurbarán are wonderful, as are the author's meditations on the paradoxes and discords within Spain, his thoughts on the effects of the barren plains on the Spanish soul and his ruminations on the history of conquest and loss which the country has undergone. Most remarkable of all is Nooteboom's ability to convey the sense that, though time has progressed, it is people, attitudes and customs which have stayed still: "Sometimes it is as if Spain is out to preserve the past for the rest of Europe."
Roads to Santiago is a book which everyone with more than passing interest in Spain ought to read. --Toby Green
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