Triumph at Midnight of the Century

Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write concretely and sensuously about himself in order to understand his mid-life nervous breakdown and about his generation as a way of explaining the underlying causes of the Spanish Civil War. With acute psychological insight, this self-taught boy from the slums, who left school at age 13, drew a unique portrait of Spanish society in the early 20th century. Barea""s trilogy, The Forging of a Rebel was well received by George Orwell: An excellent book. Senor Barea is one of the most valuable of the literary acquisitions that England has made as a result of Fascist persecution; and from Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One of the best novels written in Spanish. Barea is unusual in that he was one of the first Spanish working-class writers, one of the first autobiographers in Spain, and someone who published mainly in English even though all his attenti

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