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by Arturo Barea (Author), Ilsa Barea (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 760 pages
  • Publisher: Walker & Company (Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802776159
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802776150
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.5 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 60,430 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than history, 14 Jan 2003
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This review is from: The Forging of a Rebel (Paperback)
For anyone with an interest in Spanish history and culture, I would recommend this book over any strictly historical work I have ever read. Without glossing over personal details or emotions, and even with some inevitable bias and generalisation, Barea gives us an unmatchable picture of Spain between 1900-1939, from his beginnings as the upwardly-mobile son of a washerwoman to his job censoring the war reports of the likes of Hemingway. He shows us how the real Spain lived and what it thought, with a wealth of beautifully observed but incredibly readable detail.

For anyone scared of buying translations, don't be. This was translated by his wife (and indeed the Spanish version was published later as a translation of the English, as the author had lost his original manuscript!) and there are very few points where the writing feels unnatural (a considerable achievement for an Austrian translating from Spanish into English)

Exciting and illuminating, colourful and at times harrowing, this is certainly the best work of history (if a memoir can be called that) I have ever read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A life of fight against Fascism, 30 Jun 2001
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This is a book, or rather a collection of three books, written at different periods of Arturo Barea's life (1897-1957). He was a Spanish writer and journalist who died in exile in Britain, where he had been living since 1939. He worked also in the BBC as a commentator for the Latin American Section during the years of the Second World War.

His own life experience put him in touch with the working class, the middle class and the leaders of the Spain on the Civil War, from 1936 to 1939; this is the life experience that this book reflects. He deals in an autobiographic way with life in Madrid in the early C20th (1st part, The Forge), the colonial war of Spain in Morocco, where the author fought as a conscript and promoted to officer ( 2nd part, The Track) and the Spanish Civil War in Republican Madrid, where he witnessed as Head of Censorship at the Press Office the events of these three years of resistance and fight against General Franco's rebel army This is a book that includes personal facts and reflections of the author, mixed with historical events, written originally in Spanish but translated into English without losing its liveliness and engagement (although, as it usually happens, some expressions and situations in the original are rather lost in the translation of his wife Ilsa).

This is an exceptional book of compulsive reading, rich in anecdotes and stories which do not diminish its historical interest and value. I would strongly recommend it to anybody interested in Spain, its people and its history, especially the years of Dictatorship before those of Civil War in Madrid (yes, Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn were there among many other "war-tourists"). Barea's most important book(s) was not published in Spain until the dead of Franco in 1975.

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