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Revelatory readings of the Spanish civil war
Paul Simon reviews ¡No Pasaran! by Pete Ayrton
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¡No Pasaran! Writings from the Spanish Civil War by Pete Ayrton (Serpent’s Tail, £20)
SELECTED and introduced by Serpent’s Tail’s founder Pete Ayrton, ¡No Pasaran! offers something outside of the ordinary.
Ayrton — rightly — contends that the English public’s understanding of the war is too tightly constrained by that of a handful Anglo-Saxon commentators. Without eschewing contributions from George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway and Lee and Esmond Romilly, he and his collective of translators express the previously half-hidden or totally ignored voices of writers from Spain and other countries in this collection of memoirs and fictionalised accounts.
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