By John Miller
"Fifty years in the past Franco's fascist troops stormed Spain. subsidized through Hitler and Mussolini, they finally overwhelmed the democratically-elected Republic-- yet no longer with out dealing with one of many maximum resistances of the human spirit ever mounted.
An foreign volunteer military got here to the help of the folk of Spain, together with a number of the maximum writers and artists of the day. W.H. Auden served as a stretcher bearer; Hemingway and Dos Pasos dodged bullets to movie a documentary of the battle; Dorthy Parker braved front strains; George Orwell fought within the trenches. Others, like Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, Pablo Picasso and Samuel Beckett spoke out vehemently from their domestic countries.
Few historic occasions have encouraged such a massive physique of impassioned literature. gathered listed here are those writers' enraged cries opposed to the fascist tyranny that resulted in international battle II."
(From the again dirt jacket)
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Benjamin staggered excitedly through the ruined roof, tugging at the rope handle of an ammunition box. "Comrades! Ammunition! " This was true. Half our rifles were jammed with mud and unusable. They could be cleaned, but it is dangerous to take the bolt out of a rifle in the darkness; you put it down somewhere and then you lose it . I had a tiny electric torch which my wife had managed to buy in Barcelona, otherwise we had no light of any description among us. A few men with good rifles began a desultory fire at the flashes in the distance.
Our one chance of getting there was to move without noise. I was in front with Jorge and Benjamin. Bent double, but with faces raised, we crept into the almost utter darkness at a pace that grew slower at every step. The rain beat lightly in our faces. ::1 ·::·! 1,i 1'1 ; i:!!! AGAINST TYRANNY humped shapes like huge black mushrooms gliding slowly forward. " I could have told him that he needn't worry. I knew by experiment that on a dark night you can never see a man at twenty paces. It was far more important to go quietly.
Anew image has wiped out the old. Madrid with its chimney-pots, its towers, its portholes, now looks like a ship on the high seas. Madrid all white on the black waters of the night. A city outlives its inhabitants. Madrid, loaded with emigrants, is ferrying them from one shore to the other of life. It has a generation on board. Slowly it navigates through the centuries. Men, women, children fill it from garret to hold. Resigned or quaking with fear, they live only for the moment to come. A vessel loaded with humanity is beint torpedoed.