Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco
(Produkt nebyl zatím hodnocen)
Vydavatel: | TBS |
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Publikováno: | 2004 |
Formát: | paperback 352 stran |
Anotace
Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and
university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe
as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some
years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads.
Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always
imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in search of
duende, the intense emotional state - part ecstasy, part
desperation - so intrinsic to flamenco. Duende is an account of his
years spent in Spain feeding his obsessive interest in flamenco: he
subjects himself to the tyranny of his guitar teacher, practising
for hours on end until his fingers bleed; he becomes involved in a
passionate affair with Lola, a flamenco dancer (and older woman)
married to the gun-toting Vicente, only to flee Alicante in fear of
his life; in Madrid, he falls in with Gypsies and meets the
imperious Jesús. Joining their dislocated, cocaine-fuelled world,
stealing cars by night and sleeping away the days in tawdry rooms,
he finds himself spiralling self-destructively downwards. It is
only when he arrives in Granada bruised and battered, after two
years total immersion in the flamenco lifestyle that he is able to
put his obsession into context. In the tradition of Laurie Lee's
classic As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Duende charts a
young man's emotional coming of age and offers real insight into
the passionate essence of flamenco.
Kategorie
Knihovnické kódy
- ISBN: 0552999970
- EAN: 9780552999977