La forja, primer volumen de la trilogía La forja de un rebelde, narra la niñez y juventud del protagonista hasta el año 1914. Junto a las vivencias de Arturo, la ciudad de Madrid tiene una presencia más que notable. Este vive con su madre en una buhardilla cercana a la Plaza de Oriente, estudia en el Instituto de San Isidro, asiste a la iglesia de Santiago y al cine Callao, juega en la calle Lepanto y se mueve, comprando libros, descansando o divirtiéndose por el Rastro, el Campo del Moro, la Casa de Campo,´el rio Manzanares o la calle de Alcalá. En ese entorno, perfectamente definido y recreado con la fuerza de un Baroja, empiezan a entreverse las divisiones sociales que estallarán más tarde. La propia familia del protagonista se divide por una herencia. Arturo encuentra sus primeros trabajos y tiene sus primeros enfrentamientos reivindicativos con los jefes. Es la forja de un futuro rebelde.

Forge the Forging of a Rebel

Barea, Arturo

Flamingo Agencies Ltd.

The Track

History

Barea, Ilsa

Europe

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Clash (The Forging of a Rebel, Part 3)

Flamingo

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

The Forging of a Rebel

Literature & Fiction

VIKING

The forging of a rebel

Davis-Poynter

Originally published in the late 1940s, and never before available in paperback in the United States, Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the biography of a nation during the first four decades of the twentieth century, one of the most crucial periods in Spain's long history.
Arturo Barea was born into a poor family in Madrid in 1897 and spent his early years moving between the social and economic worlds of his beloved and widowed mother and a well-to-do aunt. Spain had just lost the last of its rich colonial possessions and was burdened by a sick and corrupt monarchy, and Barea's description of Madrid in The Forge-its slums and boulevards, beggars and children, and conflicting economic and political currents, is as gripping as it is fascinating. As with many of his generation, he developed bourgeois yearnings and became a prosperous businessman; yet he also became deeply concerned about the greed, corruption, and injustice he saw around him. His experience in the Spanish Army in Morocco during the bloody Riff War of the early 1920s, chronicled in The Track, affected him deeply and brought him back to Spain with a new perspective. The Clash jumps ahead a decade to chronicle the events in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, from 1935 to 1939, when Barea and his wife, Ilsa, left Spain for good. His descriptions of people rising up to resist their aggressors are unforgettable, and brings home more poignantly and insightfully than any history the underlying conflicts, tensions, and complexities of the Civil War.
Individually, each of Barea's books is unforgettable; together they form a literary and historical masterpiece.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Walker Books

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Kessinger Pub Co

Hive

-- The Hive presents a panoramic view of the degradation and sufferings of the lower-middle class in post-civil war Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of starkly rendered interlocking vignettes. Filled with violence, hunger, and compassion, The Hive captures the buzzing ambitions and set-backs of Spanish society under the rule of Franco.

Cela, Camilo José

Cohen, J.M.

Contemporary

Dalkey Archive Press

An astonishing trilogy of books, collected in one volume, documenting the tumultuous first half of the 20th century in SpainThe Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War.Arturo Barea's masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and starkly unequal Spain. These three volumes recount in lively detail Barea's daily experience of his country as it pitched toward disaster: we are taken from his youthful play and rebellion on the streets of Madrid, to his apprenticeship in the business world and to the horrors he witnessed as part of the Spanish army in Morocco during the Rif War. The trilogy culminates in an indelible portrait of the Republican fight against Fascist forces in which the Madrid of Barea's childhood becomes a shell and bullet-strewn warzone. Combining historical sweep and authority with poignant characterization and novelistic detail, The Forging of a Rebel is a towering literary and historical achievement.

The Forging of a Rebel: The Forge, The Track and The Clash

Pushkin Press

During the Spanish Civil War, Arturo and Ilsa Barea worked for the Republic's Press and Censorship office, operating from the Telefónica building in Madrid - the capital's first tower block, located in the Gran Vía, and notoriously the prime target for shellfire from Franco's insurgent army.\nAfter the civil war, Arturo and Ilsa sought refuge in the UK, where he broadcast weekly bulletins to Latin America for the BBC World Service. He also produced a trilogy of autobiographical novels, collectively known as The Forging of a Rebel, translated into English by Isla.\nStruggle for the Spanish Soul, an essay on contemporary Spain in which he asserted the imperative for the democracies of Europe to unseat Franco, was published in 1941. Spain in the Post-War World, published by the Fabian Society in 1945, made similar arguments, which also fell on deaf ears. Together, the two essays present a fascinating insight into why the Spanish Civil War was lost and a horrific picture of the early years of the dictatorship, which was to endure until Franco's death in 1975.

Struggle for the Spanish Soul & Spain in the Post-War World

The Clapton Press Limited

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