List of Illustrations
The Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Editions of Barea’s Books Used
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Successful Exile – Political and Personal Aims

I Arturo Barea: His Life up to 1939
II Valor y miedo: Propaganda and Passive Heroism
III Moving beyond “Surface Realism”
IV The Child’s Eye: The Forge
V Anti-imperialism in Morocco: The Track
VI The Clash: The Flame of Revolution
VII Barea in England: 1939–1957
VIII Hunger to Read: Criticism and Stories
IX Exile without Resentment

Conclusion: Unflinching Eye of a Working-class Writer

Appendix 1 Publishing history
Appendix 2 Chronological table of Barea’s books and articles
Appendix 3 Ilse Pollak/Ilsa Barea, 1902–1972
Appendix 4 The Córdoba tape

Notes
Index

“Eaude (a freelance writer) has written a thoughtful, detailed examination of the works of Barea (1897–1957) and how Barea’s life experiences influenced his writings. The author’s cogent introduction will serve primarily those unfamiliar with the period of the Spanish Civil War and the lives of ordinary Spaniards preceding and during that time (more experienced readers may appreciate the underscoring of previous research and accounts). Barea’s was one of the foremost socialist voices of the Spanish Civil War era, and his writing captured the nuances as well as the social and political realities of the time. Much of Barea’s value lies in his mix of fiction and personal experience. In 1938, Barea took political asylum in England, where he lived out his days. Eaude weaves into his account details of Barea’s childhood and his adult and professional life, providing excerpts from Barea’s novels – which are among the few by Spanish writers based on firsthand experience during this critical era in modern Spanish history.” Choice

“A translator and writer focusing on Spanish literature and politics, Eaude wrote the first full-length account in Spanish of exile Spanish novelist and critic Barea (1897–1957), who is now remembered, when remembered at all, more for his three volume autobiography/history The forging of a Rebel than for his fiction. This English biography traces his life after 1939 within the framework of his literary output. Among the stages are moving beyond surface realism, The Clash and the flame of revolution, and exile without resentment.” Reference & Research Book News

“Triumph is a readable yet thought-provoking book, full of impressive literary and historical understanding, and its arguments are almost always commanding. In true Barean style it celebrates the Spanish author’s achievements but does not flinch from highlighting the negative sides to his life and work. These include Barea’s refusal, while working as censor, to block the publication of smear stories about the revolutionary POUM, which he probably knew to be false (like the POUM, Ilsa herself was also accused of counter-revolutionary ‘Trotskyism’ by the Stalinists), and the crude nationalist stereotypes in some of his writings.
… And Triumph remains an impressive and successful attempt at explaining a writer who has too often been ignored and misunderstood. Barea’s ‘focus was on the millions who live history without a voice’ for whom and about whom he wrote. Tragically he became cut off from that audience by events beyond his control. It is hoped that Eaude’s critical biography and the cheaper recent paperback version of Barea’s trilogy (published by Granta) will bring Barea to a new audience. No doubt they will help forge new rebels … and writers!” International Socialism

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