![]() ![]() Situated at just an eight-minute walk from Plaza Mayor on one side, and a six-minute walk from the Royal Palace on the other, Desperate Literature, at Calle Campomanes 13, takes its name from a passage in Roberto Bolaño’s book, The Savage Detectives: This is how I came to know the bookshops in Madrid that mean something to me-by a peripatetic wandering. I´ve always thought that walking was the best way to find that which you didn´t know you needed-often in the very moment you need it most. Channelling your inner flâneuse gets you far. ![]() I carry his mindset with me as I pace the vibrant streets of Madrid, the spirit of which translates into the intellectual vigour of its bookshops. ![]() If there’s a bookshop that you think others should visit in a particular city, further information about contributing follows this article.Įrnest Hemingway once wrote in A Moveable Feast that his reward for a day’s worth of writing was to walk the streets of Paris, to replenish his imagination and reconnect with the outer world. In this bookshop guide, Katy Dycus takes us on a tour of some of the best bookshops in Madrid, Spain. ![]()
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