Book review: ‘Us with Us’ – a year long sojourn in Cadaqués
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- 03 Feb 2023
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This is a book about the town of Cadaqués, best known nowadays for the house-museum of Salvador Dalí, who lived and worked in the adjacent Portlligat from the early 1930s for some 40 years, attracting many famous visitors.
It is an account of the better part of a year spent in a flat right on the seafront by this long-time Barcelona-based British writer, Ryan Chandler, and his Catalan wife. Shortly after the October 2017 referendum, they escaped the ensuing storm and tensions for this very beautiful, distinctive and still somewhat isolated place near the top of the Costa Brava.
Chandler speaks good Catalan and is obviously well adjusted to life here – important to note given the view he presents of Cadasequencs as essentially a closed-off, hermetic bunch, despite having tolerated a long series of bohemians, hippies and other eccentrics in their midst: ‘These funky outsiders are now so much a part of what the place has become. And yet, they’re not.’
You may go there, even move in there, but this era of mass tourism. Read More…
