War Is Beautiful - Couverture rigide

Neugass, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1595584277 ISBN 13 : 9781595584274

Editeur : The New Press, 2008

Synopsis

The newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade--All Quiet on the Western Front for the Spanish Civil War

In 1937, James Neugass, a poet and novelist praised in the New York Times, joined 2,800 other passionate young Americans who traveled to Spain as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade--an unlikely mix of artists, journalists, industrial workers, and intellectuals united in their desire to combat European fascism.

Although rumors persisted over the years that Neugass had written a memoir, the manuscript of War Is Beautiful, a nuanced and deeply poetic chronicle of his service as an ambulance driver, did not come to light for sixty years, until a bookseller discovered it among papers in a New England house once occupied by the radical critic and editor Max Eastman. The memoir combines fast-paced accounts of darting onto battlefields to pick up the wounded with elegiac renderings of days spent "on alert" in an ever-changing series of sharply observed Spanish towns, enduring that most difficult of wartime activities: waiting.

Published now for the first time, War Is Beautiful is poised to take its place alongside works by Erich Maria Remarque, Irène Némirovsky, Wilfred Owen, and George Orwell as a transcendent contemporaneous rendering of wartime life. It includes some of Neugass's own photos taken while in Spain.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in New Orleans, James Neugass (1905-1949) attended Yale, Harvard, and Oxford and worked as a book reviewer, shoe salesman, social worker, and fencing coach before shipping off to Spain. His novel Rain of Ashes was accepted for publication shortly before his death in 1949 of a heart attack in the Sheridan Square subway station. His wartime journal was published posthumously as War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War (The New Press) in 2008.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The New Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1595584277
• ISBN 13: 9781595584274
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible