¡No pasarán!
Subtitle: writings from the Spanish Civil War
By: edited by Pete Ayrton
Edition: First Pegasus hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781681772165
Subjects: War stories; Fiction; History
Other titles: Writings from the Spanish Civil War
Description: Hope, resignation, despair, sadness, humor, confusion, ruthlessness, compassion, kindness, generosity and love inhabit Pete Ayrton's anthology of writings from the Spanish Civil War: there is little sense of triumphalism among the bewilderingly diverse Republican and Nationalist coalitions, all shades of which are represented here. Previous collections privileged the writings of the International Brigades over those of the Spanish, sometimes excluding them altogether. !No Pasarán! corrects the balance: by far the largest contingent of its thirty five writers are Spanish, including Luis Bunuel, Manuel Rivas, Javier Cercas, Arturo Barea, Joan Sales, and Chaves Nogales. The other writers offer contrasting perspectives of participants in the conflict from America (among them John Dos Passos, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes); Italy (Curzio Malaparte and Leonardo Sciascia); France (Jean-Paul Sartre and André Malraux); Germany (Gustav Regler); Russian (Victor Serge), Great Britain (including Arthur Koestler, George Orwell and Laurie Lee), Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico.
Table of contents: title: The Civil Ware (1936-1939) from My last breath  -- Luis Bunuel ; translated by Abigail Israel; title: We came for games from Savage coast  -- Muriel Rukeyser; title: Hullo, Valladolid! Who's speaking? from Days of hope  -- Andre Malraux ; translated by Stuart Gilbert and Alastair Macdonald; title: No more delay from The cypresses believe in God  -- Jose Maria Gironella ; translated by Harriet de Onis; title: A proletarian bullfight from Inside red Spain  -- Ksawery Pruszynski ; translated by Wisiek Powaga; title: More important than a law from The ravine  -- Nivaria Tejera ; translated by Carol Maier; title: Portrait of a rebel general from Spanish testament  -- Arthur Koestler; title: Laughter in Madrid from The nation  -- Langston Hughes; title: Of lice and books from Ma guerre d'Espagne a moi  -- Mika Etchebehere ; translated by Nick Caistor; title: A European patriotism from Gilles  -- Driue La Rochelle ; translated by Pete Aryton; title: The Moors return to Spain from And in the distance a light  -- Manuel Chaes Nogales ; translated by L. de Bzeza and D.C.F. Harding; title: To Albacete and the clearing house from A moment of war  -- Pere Calder ; translated by Peter Bush; title: Of love and marriage from Sons of the night  -- Anotoine Gimenez ; translated by Pete Ayrton; title: The villages are the heart of Spain from Journeys between war  -- John Dos Passos; title: The master from El Arrepentido  -- Ana Maria Matute ; translated by Nick Caistor; title: Two memories from Looking back on the Spanish War  -- George Orwell; title: Accursed bourgeoisie, you shall atone for your crimes from Uncertain glory  -- Joan Sales ; translated by Peter Bush; title: Today Spain tomorrow the world from Antimony  -- Leonardo Sciascia ; translated by N.S. Thompson; title: The wall  -- Jean-Paul Sarte ; translated by Lloyd Alexander; title: Butterfly's tongue from Vermeer's Milkmaid and other stories  -- Manuel Rivas ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa; title: In which are explained from Los liberales  -- Francisco Garcia Pavon ; translated by Nick Caistor; title: The traitor  -- Curzion Malaparte ; translated by Walter Murch; title: Movie matinee from Vint-i-dos-contes  -- Merce Rodoreda ; translated by Peter Bush; title: The empty black bag from Forbidden territory  -- Jun Goytisolo ; translated by Peter Bush; title: Punctual bombs from Death's other kingdom  -- Gamel Woolsey; title: An episode from natural history from Things look different in the night  -- Mecardo Fraile ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa; title: At the end of the alphabet from Boadilla  -- Esmond Romilly; title: The missing toe from The sleeping voice  -- Dulce Chacon ; translated by Nick Caistor; title: Speak plainly, you know me from The case of Comrade Tulayev  -- Victor Serge ; translated by Willard R. Trask; title: My gods abandoned from La ligne de force  -- Pierre Herbart ; translated by Nick Caistor; title: Second defeat: 1940 from Blind sunflowers  -- Alberto Mendez ; translated by Nick Caistor; title: This war is a lesson from The clash part 3 of The forging of a rebel  -- Arturo Barea ; translated by Ilsa Barea; title: Marks from De gernika a guernica  -- Bernardo Atxaga ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa; title: There's nobody over here from Soldiers of Salamis  -- Javier Cercas ; translated by Anne McLean; title: January without a name from Cuentos ciertos  -- Max Aub ; translated by Peter Bush; title: The camp at Argelse-sur-Mer from The feast of the bear  -- Jordi Soler ; translated by Nick Caistor; title: Our war from Veinte anos y un dia (Twenty years and a day) -- Jorge Semprun ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.