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Granada la bella

Angel Ganivet

Language:
Spanish
Status:
Complete work
Authorship:
Written by the author
Condition of the text:
Clean text
Extent:
~23,400 words · 111 passages
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What it is about

Granada la bella (1896): his own city, written from far away.

Context and history

Ganivet was consul in Antwerp when he wrote it. It is at once a defence of Granada's architecture and streetscape against redevelopment and a theory of what a city ought to be: neither a museum nor a copy of Paris. Text in SPANISH: Ganivet's original.

Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.

que están esperando su genio correspondiente que las ate ó las líe con los lazos de la Lógica; las bautice con un nombre raro, extraido de algún lexicón latino ó griego, y las lance á la publicidad con toques previos de bombo y platillo, se— gún es de ritual en estos tiempos fatigados en que la gente no sabe ya lo que las cosas son m

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