The Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War

By Valentine Cunningham

Book Overview

Offering a vivid, moving, and often surprising, cross-section of the writing generated by the most momentous political and cultural flashpoint of the 1930s--the Spanish Civil War--this anthology contains works by a vast array of prominent literary figures, including W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Samuel Beckett, Aldous Huxley, Hugh MacDiarmid, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Dos Passos, Jean-Paul Sartre, Claude Simon, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Rosamond Lehmann, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Cyril Connolly, Louis MacNeice, Leon Trotsky, Hilaire Belloc, and countless others. Spanish Front presents writers taking sides; reflecting on the War's progress in essays, diaries, letters, journalism, poems, stories, and novels; reporting their visits to the fighting zones; and expressing their responses that ranged from hope to despair and satisfaction to horror.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192820060
• ISBN13: 9780192820068
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"

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From rear cover:

The Spanish Civil War - the most momentous political and cultural flashpoint of the nineteen-thirties - struck deep into the conscience and consciousness of the West. This anthology presents a vivid, moving, and often surprising, cross-section of the writing it generated - prose and poetry, public and private, documentary and fictional, convinced and doubting, Right-wing as well as Left. Many of the contributors, though by no means all of their contributions - are well known: others far less so. The distinctive participation of women writers is here recognized and represented for the first time. 'Spanish Front' shows writers taking sides; reflecting on the War's progress in essays, diaries, letters, journalism, poems, stories, and novels; reporting their visits to the fighting zones; and expressing their varioous hopes, satisfactions, horrors, and despairs. Greene, Jarrell, Isherwood, Beckett, Pound, Weil, Spender, Campbell, Koestler, Bernanos, Yeats, Cornford, Lewis, Jameson, MacNeice, Trotsky, Powell, Woolf, Huxley, Lehmann, Ackland, Dos Passos, Brittain, Regler, Auden Connolly, Eliot, Grigson, Saint-exupery, Hemingway, Orwell, Romilly....