Triumph at midnight of the century; a critical biography of Arturo Barea; explaining the roots of the Spanish Civil War

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2009

Triumph at midnight of the century; a critical biography of Arturo Barea; explaining the roots of the Spanish Civil War.

Eaude, Michael.

Sussex Academic Press

2009

243 pages

$74.95

Hardcover

PQ6603

A translator and writer focusing on Spanish literature and politics, Eaude wrote the first full-length account in Spanish of exile Spanish novelist and critic Barea (1897-1957), who is now remembered, when remembered at all, more for his three volume autobiography/history The Forging of a Rebel than for his fiction. This English biography traces his life after 1939 within the framework of his literary output. Among the stages are moving beyond surface realism, The Clash and the flame of revolution, and exile without resentment. Distributed in the US by ISBS.

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