| Triumph at Midnight in the Century: A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea - Explaining the Roots of the Spanish Civil War Contributor(s): Eaude, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845192885 ISBN-13: 9781845192884 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: 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 bookSeor Barea is one of the most valuable of the literary acquisitions that England has made as a result of Fascist persecution;" and from Gabriel Garca Mrquez: "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 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008018037 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 244 pages |