Through Goya's Eyes

Novel

From the perspective of Gaspar Jovellanos, diarist and friend of the painter Francisco De Goya, we experience the Spanish Enlightenment of the late 18th century.

Goya’s art vividly testifies to the pain and suffering of brutal repression, as well as to the vitality and hopefulness that were all part of the Spanish experience at this time.

In the form of a biography of Gaspar Jovellanos, the author takes us into a world that is otherwise relatively unknown outside the Spanish-speaking world.

The author writes: "The world of Francisco De Goya and Gaspar Jovellanos teems with diverse characters, real people who interact with them, from Ceán Bermúdez, Martín Olavide, and Saavedra to Charles IV, a Carthusian apothecary, and an Institute librarian. Other characters, namely Elena, her father, and Echevarria, reflect themes expressed in Jovellano's writings and in Goya's Caprichos drawings. Since Gaspar wrote often in his Diarios of traveling by caballo I provided a really fine horse for him named Robles."

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