Speak the Culture: Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture

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1. Identity: the
   building blocks of
   2. Literature
   and philosophy
   3. Art and
   architecture
   4. Performing
   arts
   5. Cinema
   and fashion
   6. Media and
   communications
   7. Food and drink 8. Living culture:
   the details of

2.1 Literature

Spanish literature is characterised by

soul searching, preoccupied as it has

been with the bleaker periods of national

history. From Western lit’s founding

novel,Don Quixote, to Camilo José Cela’s

banned stories about 20th century

squalor, it’s an absorbing read that takes

you right to the heart of Spain itself.