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Turner (1900)
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Selvbiografisk roman om forfatterens liv i Madrid under den spanske borgerkrig.
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LibraryThing member William.Kirkland
Sweetly rendered autobiography of his youth in Madrid, cossetted by his uncle and aunt but running with the street boys, selling newspapers, getting into rock fights....Short, jump-cut chapters.
I River and Attic: tossing mud at freshly washed breeches and giggling over imagining them as messed.
II Cafe Espanol: Playing with Angel, the newspaper boy, chasing cats. the homeless using the cathedral steps to sleep on. Lunch at Cafe Europa and the 12 people who ate with them, esp two blind musicains. Playing with little girl Tension between his mother and his aunt; sleeping in bed with her. Aunt accuses uncle and others of conspiracy to break her heart. Aunt wins argument but he later goes to sleep with his mother [very touching]
III The Roads of Castile: visiting uncles and aunts in villages outside of Madrid -- one on the hot dusty plains, another in a temperate, river-run, valley. Descriptions of trades he remembers: the iron monger, the sieive-maker, the wineskin maker... The ride in the mule cart, so jouncy that passengers got road-sick. Stories of the people beating back Napoleon 100 years earlier... Great stories of his grandmother and aunt fighting
IV Weatlands: Cuckoo clockl family story of one brother leaving the land, learning to read and write, then making money he sent back to others...including selling all their wheat during the Cuban war.. Storks, swallows, bats Running the bulls...
V WIne Lands: Uncle, the blacksmith,,, [This must be the Forge of the title.} Cousins arguing... Rabbit stew, girls smoking and being beaten by aunt... The Feast of out Lady
I River and Attic: tossing mud at freshly washed breeches and giggling over imagining them as messed.
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more on washer women, including his mother. Racing a wooden cart, suicides from a bridge, bowles falling out through a rupture, and being pushed back inII Cafe Espanol: Playing with Angel, the newspaper boy, chasing cats. the homeless using the cathedral steps to sleep on. Lunch at Cafe Europa and the 12 people who ate with them, esp two blind musicains. Playing with little girl Tension between his mother and his aunt; sleeping in bed with her. Aunt accuses uncle and others of conspiracy to break her heart. Aunt wins argument but he later goes to sleep with his mother [very touching]
III The Roads of Castile: visiting uncles and aunts in villages outside of Madrid -- one on the hot dusty plains, another in a temperate, river-run, valley. Descriptions of trades he remembers: the iron monger, the sieive-maker, the wineskin maker... The ride in the mule cart, so jouncy that passengers got road-sick. Stories of the people beating back Napoleon 100 years earlier... Great stories of his grandmother and aunt fighting
IV Weatlands: Cuckoo clockl family story of one brother leaving the land, learning to read and write, then making money he sent back to others...including selling all their wheat during the Cuban war.. Storks, swallows, bats Running the bulls...
V WIne Lands: Uncle, the blacksmith,,, [This must be the Forge of the title.} Cousins arguing... Rabbit stew, girls smoking and being beaten by aunt... The Feast of out Lady
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8485137434 / 9788485137435