Volume 22, Number 3 · March 6, 1975
An Honest Man
By Gerald Brenan
The Forging of a Rebel
by Arturo Barea, translated by Ilsa Barea
Viking, 751 pp., $15.00
Arturo Barea was born in Madrid in 1897 and settled in England in 1939 after the Spanish Civil War was over. His autobiography, The Forging of a Rebel, first came out in English in three successive parts, The Forge, The Track, and The Clash, and won high praise from the reviewers, among others from George Orwell. The Spanish text did not appear till 1951 when an edition was printed in Buenos Aires, but the censorship has not yet allowed it to be published in Spain. Although it must rank both on literary and documentary grounds as one of the most significant Spanish prose works of this century, it is not mentioned in Angel Valbuena Prat's four-volume History of Spanish Literature, which appeared in 1964. Very few Spaniards have heard of it.
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