Goya en el país de los garrotazos

While Goya painted his present, he also portrayed ours. For this reason he is considered the father of modernity. Precursor and visionary, the Aragonese painter climbed to the highest peak of art to reflect the greatest and most abject of his time, chapters that today return like the rhymes of history: the deterioration of the monarchy, the failed dream of the reason, inequalities and misery, violence and the horror of war, but also our way of understanding the beauty, the festivities and the joy of living, the work and the fighting spirit of the common people ... If I returned today to be born, Goya would recognize us immediately. Because his work is the mirror of our idiosyncrasy. Of our ability to create, but also to destroy. From this XXI century already advanced, Berna González Harbor undertakes a personal journey to the life of Goya, treads his territories and analyzes many of the mysteries, gossip and fake news that have surrounded the figure of him. An original and fascinating biographical journey through the intimate and familiar episodes of the little-known painter. With an almost police style and her ability to generate intrigue, the author immerses herself in them in search of answers and a new light. Goya in the country of the sticks is a masterful combination of history, art, journalism and literature. An invitation to the pure pleasure of reading. A novel in which everything is true.