num_pages: 528
description: Published Cambridge University Press, 381 pages. Memoir of the author who was part of the Bloomsbury group of the 1920's. Includes his encounters with the Woolfs, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, and others. ... FROM THE AMAZON "Brenan's strong suit is in the depiction of character and when sticking to that cannot be bettered by any other writer in my experience. His descriptions of the beginning days of the Spanish civil war are eyewitness accounts which seem to me to be free of political bias and to give a knowledgeable impression of the labyrinthine complexity of the contending parties and the demented level of senseless violence. Brenan seems not to have known a single person in his life without some degree of psychosexual abnormality and a good half of the book has a hothouse quality I couldn't read. It quickly transpired that as soon as I saw the name "Carrington" in a sentence I skipped the sentence, paragraph, page or chapter, as need be. His father was an unattractive human too and memoirs of unhappy families can be excruciating. In an Englishman I found such frankness curious, as it struck one more like today's reality TV than the legendary reserve of the English.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Memoria personal 1920-1975
titlecomplete: Memoria personal 1920-1975 (Spanish Edition)
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Alianza Editorial