Spain in Mind
This is the ninth literary travel guide in the In Mind series, the fifth edited by Powers, offering insights into a region, a ritual, or an event. Forty writers are represented, including W. H. Auden, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Washington Irving, Henry James, W. Somerset Maugham, George Orwell, Edith Wharton, and Richard Wright. There are letters and memoirs, poems, and selections from novels and nonfiction pieces. Powers states in her introduction that most of the writers express an exuberant spirit with an underpinning of melancholy: the passion of the bullfight, the celebration of holidays and festivals, and the love of food and families. This anthology portrays both the layers of the past and the vivid present. It is the closest anyone has come to capturing the essence of this fascinating country.George CohenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved