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Impressions, travel and general accounts
Alistair Boyd
The Essence of Catalonia
(o/p). Part-history, part-travel book, with discourses on various Catalan themes - food and drink, art, literature, language. A good general introduction.
Robert Hughes
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General history
Raymond Carr
Modern Spain 1875-1980
(OUP, UK/US) and
The Spanish Tragedy: the Civil War in Perspective
(Weidenfeld, UK). Two of the best books available on modern Spanish history - well-told narratives.
Felipe...
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The Civil War
Arturo Barea
The Forging of a Rebel
(o/p). Autobiographical trilogy taking in the Spanish war in Morocco in the 1920s, and Barea's own part in the Civil War. Praised by Orwell, the books are published under the individual titles
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Art
As well as the volume listed below, there are numerous
individual studies
of Picasso, Miró, Dalí and Gaudí. In Barcelona, look in the bookshops in the Museu Picasso and the Fundació Miró, and in the Museu Dalí in Figueres.
John...
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Catalan literature and books about Barcelona
Bernado Atxaga
The Lone Man
(Penguin, UK/US). Basque novelist sets a well-received thriller during the 1982 World Cup, when two ETA gunmen hole up in a Barcelona hotel.
Victor Catalŕ (Caterina Albert i Paradis)
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