Historians who make stuff up, novelists who can’t novelise
El misteri de l’assassinat del bisbe de Barcelona by Ponç Feliu and Miquel Mir
Category: Poets
The 1903 Paris-Madrid race that got away
A remarkable feat of memory from Arturo Barea’s autobiography.
A brief history of zoological shame
Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.
Crisis, what crisis?
Rodolfo de Angelis’ great 1930s hit explains how to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve got ourselves into.
Revealed, the identity of the horny apparition in the story of St Benedict, the blackbird, and the nettles
A 19th century Roman historian says she’s from the Roman Merula (blackbird) clan.
Fierro favoured slightly over hierro/yerro after vowel in early modern Spanish?
It sounds better.
Langston Hughes in Spain
Idealism vs realism as a Stalinist hack copes with the Italian bombing of Barcelona but struggles to explain why Moorish peasants are slaughtering Spanish workers in the battle for Madrid.
Lithos by Xavier Cugat at Brok
See him marry Rita Montaner! empathise with his doggies! buy me a print!
The Hispanic Orthography Files, continued
Plus a zarzuela/politics RFI.
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Canute, defeated by the waves, will nevertheless fix your plumbing
New business card from Barcelona’s best odd-job man.
