Americo Castro. Rodriguez, Javier Escudero, ed. Juan Goytisolo, prologo

El Epistolario: Cartas de Americo Castro a Juan Goytisolo [1968-1972] inscribed by editor

Valencia, Spain: Pre-Textos, 1997. First Edition. Wraps. Trade softcover in dust jacket, very good, inscribed by Rodriguez to his friend and Penn State colleague Robert Lima, who is also mentioned in the acknowledgments. Americo Castro (1885-1972) was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards did not become the distinct group that they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711, an event that turned them into an Iberian caste co-existing among Moors and Jews, and that the history of Spain and Portugal was adversely affected with the success in the 11th to the 15th centuries of the "Reconquista" or Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and with the Spanish expulsion of the Jews (1492). (wikipedia). Very good / very good. Item #h44205
ISBN: 8481911372

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