Spain is visited by millions of English-speaking tourists every year, drawn by sun, sand, sangría and in some cases culture. Yet the modern country is oddly little-known. These works should give an insight
by millions of English-speaking tourists every year, drawn by sun, sand, sangría and in some cases culture. Yet the modern country is oddly little-known. Outsiders’ views of it are often fixed by the writing of George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway about the civil war of 1936-39, which was not only part of a global struggle against fascism but also an especially bloody episode in a century-long domestic battle between conservatives and modernisers.
This panoramic autobiographical memoir in three volumes was originally published in English between 1941 and 1946, when the author was in exile in Britain, and not published in Spain until after Franco’s death. The first volume describes Barea’s childhood as the bright son of a washerwoman in Lavapiés, then as now a poorin Madrid. The second finds him as a junior officer in a colonial war in Morocco in which the rottenness of the army is exposed by a catastrophic defeat.
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