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Spain's Martyred Cities - From the Battle of Madrid to Picasso's Guernica (Paperback)
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Spain's Martyred Cities - From the Battle of Madrid to Picasso's Guernica (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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Spain's Martyred Cities studies international reactions to the
Spanish Civil War between the Battle of Madrid in November 1936 and
the bombing of Guernica in April 1937. Many of the iconic events of
the war belong to this key period, when international perceptions
of the conflict were decisively shaped. The subject is approached
through French and British newspapers and pamphlets, and events are
linked to both their immediate press coverage and subsequent
literary and artistic representations. For contemporaries, the
aerial bombardments of Madrid, Guernica and other cities formed
part of a single unbroken narrative. It was only later that
Guernica acquired its perceived symbolic primacy. The language of
martyrdom' was sometimes evoked in pro-Republican writing as a
means of challenging Francoist claims to the religious and moral
high ground. But the ur-text was The Martyrdom of Madrid (1937), a
compilation of the posthumous, censored reports of the French
correspondent Louis Delapree on the bombing of Madrid. Delapree's
earliest reporting (JulyOctober 1936) was from both the Nationalist
and Republican zones, and is used to provide an introductory
overview of the early stages of the war; he was an eyewitness of
the aerial bombardments of Madrid in November 1936; subsequently,
the posthumous publication of his writings created a major stir in
Paris. Delapree's powerful and emotive writing provides a platform
from which to discuss issues of press censorship and journalistic
practice. It is notable for its initial impact, when publication in
no less than five languages enabled it to reach writers as
different as Virginia Woolf and Andre Malraux. This book shows that
Delapree's reports were also an important catalyst in Picasso's
artistic involvement in the war, culminating in his Guernica.
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