Author | Gerald Brenan |
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Language | English |
Subject | Travel Literature |
Published | 1957 |
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South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village is an autobiographical book by Gerald Brenan, first published in 1957.
Brenan, a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, settled in Spain in 1920,[1] and lived there on and off for the rest of his life.[2] The book is an example of travel literature, mixing an autobiographical account of his life in Yegen, the village where he found his first home in Spain,[1] with detailed background information about the Alpujarras region of Andalusia. He describes visits to his home by Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Dora Carrington,[3] and also devotes space to Spanish prehistory, particularly the Millaran culture.