Pagan Spain

Resumen del libro

A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. The Spain he visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption.

Biografía del autor

Richard Wright (1908-1960) nació en Misisipi, donde conoció desde pequeño la violencia de la segregación racial. Su debut, "Hijo de esta tierra", en 1940, nace del deseo de retratar con honestidad la única forma de vida que su país natal le había permitido conocer íntimamente, es decir, la vida de los guetos negros estadounidenses, y encuentra un inesperado éxito, convirtiéndole en el primer gran novelista afroamericano.