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Triumph at Midnight in the Century - A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea - Explaining the Roots of the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover)
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Triumph at Midnight in the Century - A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea - Explaining the Roots of the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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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 aged 13, drew a
unique portrait of Spanish society in the early twentieth century.
His 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 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "One of
the best novels written in Spanish." He 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 though all his attention was focused on Spain. In this
ground-breaking biography, based on numerous interviews with people
who knew Barea, 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
his 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 twentieth 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
slanders that Barea did not write his own books. Published in
association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish
Studies
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