South from Granada

This article is about the autobiographical book. For the 2003 film, see South from Granada (film).

South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village

Author	Gerald Brenan
Language	English
Subject	Travel Literature
Published	1957
Media type	Print

South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village is an autobiographical book by Gerald Brenan, first published in 1957.

Brenan, a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, settled in Spain in 1920,^[1] and lived there on and off for the rest of his life.^[2] The book is an example of travel literature, mixing an autobiographical account of his life in Yegen, the village where he found his first home in Spain,^[1] with detailed background information about the Alpujarras region of Andalusia. He describes visits to his home by Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Dora Carrington,^[3] and also devotes space to Spanish prehistory, particularly the Millaran culture.

Film version

South from Granada has been adapted into a film, Al sur de Granada (2003), directed by Fernando Colomo. The film includes some biographical material not in the original book.

References

1. Nayler, Mark (December 2018). "Gerald Brenan's Yegen, a century on". Sur in English.
2. Holland, R. F. (2018). The warm south: how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 235. ISBN 9780300240870.
3. Speake, Jennifer, ed. (2003). Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 1119. ISBN 9781579584405.