Don Quixote's delusions : travels in Castilian Spain / Miranda France.
2002
DP302.C553 F73 2002 (Mapit)
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Title
Don Quixote's delusions : travels in Castilian Spain / Miranda France.
Author
France, Miranda, 1966-
ISBN
1585672920 (alkaline paper)
9781585672929 (alkaline paper)
9781585672929 (alkaline paper)
Publication Details
Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2002.
Language
English
Description
243 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
DP302.C553 F73 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
946/.2
Summary
"In 1987, when Miranda France spent a year in Madrid as a student, the new freedoms of post-Franco Spain were intoxicating: divorce, regional languages, contraceptives, kissing in the street, even the public consumption of drugs had become legal. At the university where, in 1936, Republicans had fought Nationalists in hand-to-hand combat, girls with Snoopy folders now sat alongside men with well-washed hair and boat shoes. Yet Madrid was also a mecca for fiery South American communists and moody Basque nationalists. Against this background, Miranda France describes a love-affair with a Peruvian revolutionary as well as an eccentric cast of characters - landladies, roommates, neighbors, and fellow students."
"Then, in 1998, she returns to Spain to revisit the countryside, towns, and great cities of the central part of the country - Madrid, Toledo, Avila, Segovia, Salamanca - and to discover how much has changed in ten years. With the new prosperity, much has altered, and the old bargain between men and women is over. But many values have endured, as she learns from a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers, and a Castilian separatist, among others."--Jacket.
"Then, in 1998, she returns to Spain to revisit the countryside, towns, and great cities of the central part of the country - Madrid, Toledo, Avila, Segovia, Salamanca - and to discover how much has changed in ten years. With the new prosperity, much has altered, and the old bargain between men and women is over. But many values have endured, as she learns from a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers, and a Castilian separatist, among others."--Jacket.
Note
"Then, in 1998, she returns to Spain to revisit the countryside, towns, and great cities of the central part of the country - Madrid, Toledo, Avila, Segovia, Salamanca - and to discover how much has changed in ten years. With the new prosperity, much has altered, and the old bargain between men and women is over. But many values have endured, as she learns from a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers, and a Castilian separatist, among others."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237) and index.
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Table of Contents
A Dead Man in Madrid
The Taxi-Driver's Cousin's Friend
Don Quixote's Delusions
Transvestites, Anarchists and a Peruvian Poet
Double Lives and Double Cheeseburgers
Is Anything Real?
Pastoral Scenes in Avila
Love in a Cold Climate
A Question of Faith
Is Burgos Boring?
A Little Place in La Mancha
Which Are You? Quixote or Sancho?
An Angel in Segovia
New Life in Castile.
The Taxi-Driver's Cousin's Friend
Don Quixote's Delusions
Transvestites, Anarchists and a Peruvian Poet
Double Lives and Double Cheeseburgers
Is Anything Real?
Pastoral Scenes in Avila
Love in a Cold Climate
A Question of Faith
Is Burgos Boring?
A Little Place in La Mancha
Which Are You? Quixote or Sancho?
An Angel in Segovia
New Life in Castile.