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Book The Forging of a Rebel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arturo Barea
  • Publisher : Pushkin Press
  • Release : 2019-03-26
  • ISBN : 1782274944
  • Pages : 769 pages

Download or read book The Forging of a Rebel written by Arturo Barea and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing autobiographical trilogy—hailed by George Orwell and Gabriel García Márquez—is “the most definitive and personal account of Spain’s history during . . . the 20th century” (Guardian). The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and starkly unequal Spain. These three volumes recount in lively detail Barea's daily experience of his country as it pitched toward disaster: we are taken from his youthful play and rebellion on the streets of Madrid, to his apprenticeship in the business world and to the horrors he witnessed as part of the Spanish army in Morocco during the Rif War. The trilogy culminates in an indelible portrait of the Republican fight against Fascist forces in which the Madrid of Barea's childhood becomes a shell and bullet-strewn warzone. Combining historical sweep and authority with poignant characterization and novelistic detail, The Forging of a Rebel is a towering literary and historical achievement.

Book The Forging of a Rebel

Download or read book The Forging of a Rebel written by Arturo Barea and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing autobiographical trilogy—hailed by George Orwell and Gabriel García Márquez—is “the most definitive and personal account of Spain’s history during . . . the 20th century” (Guardian). The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and starkly unequal Spain. These three volumes recount in lively detail Barea's daily experience of his country as it pitched toward disaster: we are taken from his youthful play and rebellion on the streets of Madrid, to his apprenticeship in the business world and to the horrors he witnessed as part of the Spanish army in Morocco during the Rif War. The trilogy culminates in an indelible portrait of the Republican fight against Fascist forces in which the Madrid of Barea's childhood becomes a shell and bullet-strewn warzone. Combining historical sweep and authority with poignant characterization and novelistic detail, The Forging of a Rebel is a towering literary and historical achievement.

Book The Forging of a Rebel  The clash

Download or read book The Forging of a Rebel The clash written by Arturo Barea and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Clash

Download or read book The Clash written by Arturo Barea and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forging of a Rebel

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  • Author : Arturo Barea
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1944
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 739 pages

Download or read book The Forging of a Rebel written by Arturo Barea and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Triumph at Midnight in the Century

Download or read book Triumph at Midnight in the Century written by Michael Eaude and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write concretely and sensuously about himself in order to understand his mid-life nervous breakdown and about his generation as a way of explaining the underlying causes of the Spanish Civil War. With acute psychological insight, this self-taught boy from the slums, who left school at age 13, drew a unique portrait of Spanish society in the early 20th century. Barea's trilogy, The Forging of a Rebel was well received by George Orwell: "An excellent book...Senor Barea is one of the most valuable of the literary acquisitions that England has made as a result of Fascist persecution;" and from Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "One of the best novels written in Spanish." Barea is unusual in that he was one of the first Spanish working-class writers, one of the first autobiographers in Spain, and someone who published mainly in English even though all his attention was focused on Spain. In this groundbreaking biography, based on numerous interviews with people who knew Barea, author Michael Eaude revisits Barea's writing qualities and deficiencies in the context of stimulating intersections of literature and politics, and of Spain and England. He evaluates all Barea's major works, including: The Track, the story of Barea's time as a sergeant during the 1920s colonial war in Morocco * The Forge, the story of city and country, school and work, in the first years of the 20th century, told through the eyes of a child * The Clash, the story of Barea's experience as a censor during the Civil War * The Broken Root, his last novel, about exile and an imagined return to Madrid * and his short stories and essays. He also puts into perspective Barea's more than 800 talks for the BBC, and rebuts the slanders that Barea did not write his own books.

Book After the Civil War

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  • Author : Michael Richards
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-08
  • ISBN : 0521899346
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book After the Civil War written by Michael Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish civil war was fought out not only on streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also in terms of memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book explores how the memory of Spain's bloody civil war has been contested from 1939 to the present.

Book Anglo Hispania beyond the Black Legend

Download or read book Anglo Hispania beyond the Black Legend written by Mark Lawrence and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces and analyses the relationship between Britain and Spain in its various forms since 1489. So often viewed as antagonistic rivals in history, the two countries are here compared and contrasted in order to shed light on their international connection and how this has evolved over time. Mark Lawrence reflects on the similarities of their composite monarchies, their roles as successive projectors of European global power, and the common fondness for peculiarly patriotic expressions of Christianity through the ages. At the same time, Lawrence is alert to recognising other ways in which Britain and Spain have seemed worlds apart in their respective corners of the European continent. He examines how British Protestants excoriated Spain in a 'Black Legend', while Catholic propagandists dismissed rising English power as the work of pirates and heretics during the early modern period. In a series of chronological chapters rich with a diverse range of sources, Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend considers the cultural exchanges which flourished amidst the growth of travel and new ideas in the 18th century, the surprising alliances of the 19th century and the shared international causes of the 20th. Whereas Spaniards feared or admired Britain for its successful political and fiscal system, the book convincingly argues, Britons romanticised Iberia for its supposed failures. It ultimately concludes that British campaigns in the 1700s and 1800s established a Romantic Spain in memoir culture which the 20th century gradually dissolved in the ideological cauldron of the 1930s and the advent of mass tourism.

Book The Forging of a Rebel

Download or read book The Forging of a Rebel written by Arturo Barea and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Your Children Will be Next

Download or read book Your Children Will be Next written by R. A. Stradling and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baghdad, Kandahar, Jakarta--not to mention Dresden, Hiroshima, Hanoi: the mass killing of civilians as collateral damage, especially as the result of air bombardment, represents one of the most emotional and ethically urgent issues in the contemporary world. Many experts in the field see the civil war that tore apart Spain as the original site of this "new kind of war," as George Steer, reporting on the bombing of Guernica, christened it. Your Children Will Be Next centers on the bombing of Getafe, a small town south of Madrid, shortly after that war's outbreak--when Nationalist rebels advancing on the capital launched air raids on targets that unfortunately included this suburban township, where thirty young children were killed. The claims of the Republican government produced not only the celebrated poster--"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"--but also a worldwide propaganda campaign that stimulated support for the Spanish republic. The core of this thought-provoking book is a meticulous account of the alleged atrocity of Getafe that is presented as part of a wide-ranging survey of both sides' conduct in the matter, as well as the reactions of politicians, soldiers, reporters, writers, and artists. Appealing to anyone with an interest in European history, as well as in the potent powers of media and propaganda, Your Children Will Be Next is guaranteed to stimulate lively debate on a powerful and controversial topic.

Book The Forging of a Rebel

Download or read book The Forging of a Rebel written by Arturo Barea and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book TSWNTIETH CENTURY AUTHORS

Download or read book TSWNTIETH CENTURY AUTHORS written by STANLEY J. KUNITZ and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twentieth Century Authors

Download or read book Twentieth Century Authors written by Stanley Kunitz and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical dictionary of modern literature.

Book World Authors  1900 1950

Download or read book World Authors 1900 1950 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides almost 2700 articles on twentieth-century authors from all over the world who wrote in English or whose works are available in English translation.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth Century Europe

Download or read book Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth Century Europe written by Nicholas Atkin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes accounts of civilians' roles and experiences through wars in twentieth-century Europe.

Book Tina Modotti

Download or read book Tina Modotti written by Margaret Hooks and published by First Glance Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated portrait of one of the most significant women photographers of the 20th century and the glamorous international circles of art and politics in which she traveled. From her beginnings in Italy to Hollywood in the 1920s to post-quake San Francisco, Modotti's life is magnificently portrayed.