Description
About the Author
Arturo Barea (1897-1957) was born in Badajoz and raised and educated in Madrid. For most of the Spanish Civil War, he acted as head of the Foreign Press and Censorship Bureau of the Republican Government in Madrid and was also the radio broadcaster who spoke as the 'Unknown Voice of Madrid'. Eventually forced out of Spain, he sought temporary asylum in France before crossing to England just before the outbreak of World War II. He and his wife Ilsa settled in Eaton Hastings near Faringdon in Berkshire. From 1940 until 1957 he transmitted a weekly broadcast for Spanish Radio to South America known as Juan de Castilla. He published novels and short stories as well as books of criticism, including Lorca, the Poet (1944) and Unamuno (1952), and his great autobiographical trilogy The Forging of a Rebel first appeared in English between 1941 and 1946.
Reviews
"This is an exceptional book."
-George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984
"One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century."
-New Republic
"One of the most significant Spanish prose works of [the 20th] century . . . Moving and dramatic."
-New York Review of Books
"Perhaps the most definitive and personal account of [Spain's] history during the first four decades of the 20th century."
-Guardian
"As essential to an understanding of twentieth-century Spain as the reading of Tolstoy is indispensable to the comprehension of nineteenth-century Russia."
-Daily Telegraph
Book Information
ISBN 9781782274940
Author Arturo Barea
Format Paperback
Page Count 768
Imprint Pushkin Press
Publisher Pushkin Press