May 21, 2004
'The Spanish Gypsy: The History of a European Obsession'
When Alexandre Dumas toured Spain in 1846, he indulged in what had become a ritual for romantics. Entering the Andalusian city of Granada, the French writer and his coterie of arty companions found a guide to arrange a spectacle: Gypsies, the guide promised, dancing in ways normally unseen by strangers. After the adieux métalliques, as Dumas called his farewell to coins, the show was on.
Dumas was both attracted and repelled, writes Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of The Spanish
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