KAP ŠPANSKE KRVI - Miloš Crnjanski

• Category: HOME CLASSICS
• Author: Miloš Crnjanski
• Publisher: SUMATRA PUBLISHING
• Year: 2020
• Format: 13x20
• Page: 194

One warm autumn and the wet beginning of one snowy winter were enough for Señora Maria Dolores del Porís y Montez, a traveling artist, to rule not only the heart of a king, but to alarm the entire capital against him, and against herself the entire One-Saving Catholic Church and its archpastors in Bavaria.

"You can say about 'Drop of Spanish Blood' that it is a historical novel. It is not, however, a historical novel. When you want to get out of reality, out of a naturalistic novel, you go into fantasy, then everything doesn't matter to you. If you imagine a Spanish player - actually she wasn't Spanish, she was Irish - so if you take one such player and one king, and that player becomes his mistress and makes a revolution in Munich - and Munich was a city for me that I often passed through, not because of politics, but because of the museum - then you too would be in situation to ask the question even then - and I was young - what does a man look like over sixty years, when in the presence of a woman who is thirty years old, a beauty. It is first and foremost a romance novel.”

Miloš Crnjanski