This Is The Hour A Novel about Goya Author:Lion Feuchtwanger The majestic sweep of Feuchtwanger's "Proud Destiny," the dynamic human quality of "Power," are combined in this superb new historical novel set in the turbulent Spain of the Napoleonic era. Its hero is the artist Francisco Goya--and his fabulous affair with Cayetana, Duchess of Alba, is the bright central thread of its rich tapestry. — Goya's st... more »ory, as well as the story of Spain in those years of her dying glory, has long merited a novelist of Feuchtwanter's stature and scholarship. He has made them into an immensely readable novel of an exciting man in an exciting time.« less