Jonathan Blitzer explores what it is like to be a foreigner abroad. What happens to Americans in Spain? What does the country mean to them – and what do we seem to mean to Spaniards? The days of Hemingway are over. American bluster has softened in Iberia. The Sun Also Rises makes way for Leaving the Atocha Station. The Bush years have rebranded American brawn, and the expat intellectual has new bonafides to prove. Spain is a strangely compelling proving ground. We’ll start in Madrid and end in Oviedo, where Woody Allen is enbronzed for all to see.
Jonathan Blitzer is on the editorial staff of The New Yorker.
May 5th, 4:15 | Griffin 7