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The Forging Of A Rebel
The Forging of a Rebel is an Autobiography, autobiographical trilogy of books written by the Spanish author, broadcaster and journalist Arturo Barea. They were first published during the author's exile in the United Kingdom after the Spanish Civil War. Books ''La Forja'' (The Forge) ''La Forja'' describes the author's childhood and youth in Madrid prior to 1914 and his early schooling in Escuelas Pías de San Fernando, Escuelas Pías in Lavapiés. During these years his mother worked as a laundress of military clothes, by the Manzanares (river), river Manzanares. The novel describes Barea's early ambitions of becoming an engineer and his frustration with an unequal social system that forces him to terminate his education and work in various jobs such as courier, shop attendant and bank employee. He enrolls in the Unión General de Trabajadores, UGT and develops ties with fellow socialists. Much of the book's focus is on the clash of classes under the Monarchy of Spain, Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autobiography
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical ''The Monthly Review'', when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic". However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey in 1809. Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity. Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from the periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that " utobiographyis a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time". Autobiography thus takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
