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Pagan Spain Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition

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A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption.

The Spain Richard Wright visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers in Pagan Spain is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith.

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978-0061450198
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HarperCollins e-books
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23 April 2010
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English
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"This is Richard Wright's Spain, which means that it is fascinating, intense, subjective, emotional." (New York Times Book Review)

"Controversial in the extreme, but [the author] presents a point of view with honesty." (San Francisco Chronicle) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Richard Wright won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. He stands today alongside such African-American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his novels, Native Son and Black Boy, are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. He died in 1960. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B003IR5KX4
Publisher : HarperCollins e-books; Reprint edition (23 April 2010)
Language : English
File size : 756 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 352 pages

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cpk

Very interesting and well worth the reading.

Reviewed in the United States on 26 February 2017

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Narrative of a "road trip" through Spain undertaken by the author during the heyday of the Franco regime. The author's stated purpose was to get to know Spain and it's people, so the bulk of the narrative is the tale of various conversations with a variety of persons from (literally) all walks of life that encounters along the way, supplemented by his own observations of their daily lives and circumstances. These are sort of stitched together by excerpts from a Falange instruction book for girls and young women that he picks up along the way. His descriptions are very compelling, quietly witty, and insightful - whether of ordinary life or extraordinary events, such as a bullfight. Wright's travels led him to conclude that the people of Spain were suffering. The people he encountered told him so explicitly and from different points if view. As he recounts these conversations, he confirms their statements by describing the daily troubles, misery, and just plain strangeness he encountered. He developed the thesis that, underneath it all, Spain housed an unreconstructedly pagan culture and social system. Very much a book of its time and place.

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Vera Cousins

Pagan Spain by Richard Wright

Reviewed in the United States on 10 February 2017

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Richard Wright, a Black American writer from US South travels in Franco's Spain where he experiences no prejudice on account of his color. It is a sort of travelog, interspersed with lengthy quotes from a political tract written in short declarative sentences, like for a child, which he obtained from a young Spanish woman (who had to memorize the information to pass a civil service exam). The book depicts the oppressive mindset of the times. Nobody dared to think, much less express any thought, so all energy went into music and dance, and bull fighting.

Lynn

A good read..no dull history here!

Reviewed in the United States on 5 May 2017

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Written from a very personal insight Richard Wright, a black American writer, visits Spain and has some amazing revelations about Franco's Spain. Much of what has been revealed has not changed but is presently in a state of change because of the EU, financial collapse, changing Papal policies. There are still areas seeking independence, still agrarian woes, still a struggling middle class, still a rough look whenever Gibraltar is mentioned. Yes Spain basks in its past glories but is using its culture and history to promote tourism . If you are interested in Spanish culture or history you will appreciate and value this enjoyable read

johnn

A kind of travelogue about Richard Wright's sojourn in Spain in the 1950's

Reviewed in the United States on 28 September 2014

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I have been an admirer of Richard Wright since reading "Native Son" and "Black Boy" when I was a teenager. In 1992 my wife and I were on an Elderhostel to Spain and visited many of the places that Wright described in "Pagan Spain." Apparently much had changed in Spain in the forty years between Wright's sojourn and ours in 1992. For example the Alhambra in Granada seemed to be in good repair whereas Wright's description was much less flattering. The monarchy had been restored and it seemed to us naive Americans that life in Spain was relatively good. While at the Alhambra, our guide reported that most of the Spanish population could trace their ancestry back to the Arabs and the Jews of the middle ages. If true, then Spain indeed is the "melting pot" of Europe.

The "Valley of the Fallen" which was under construction during Wright's tour had been finished by 1992.. I found it to be one of the creepiest places II have ever been, It was this enormous cave, excavated for the purpose of honoring
Spanish heroes of the Falange.. The two principal leaders of the Falange, Francisco Franco and Jose Antonio Rivera. are interred there along with hundreds of unnamed prisoners who were responsible for building the monument. It was gloomy and wet with drippings from above. All in all a very unpleasant place.

I am also curious about Franco's ancestry. If he was the progeny of " conversos" (Jews who remained in Spain after their expulsion in 1492) , would that have made a difference in Hitler's plans to have Spain enter World War II as part of the Axis?

The book was an interesting account of one man's experience in Franco's Spain and is worthwhile reading for persons interested in post-WWII Europe.

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chas

Excellent historical document, warts and all.

Reviewed in the United States on 10 April 2017

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Excellent historical document despite a few errors. I live in Spain 6 months a year, and much of what he says about peoples' attitudes towards church, right or left wing narrow ideology is still mostly accurate.

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