Arturo Barea [1897–1957]

Date of Birth:	20 Sep 1897 Badajoz
Died:	24 Dec 1957 Farringdon/United Kingdom (age 60)

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Oct 1897	San Lorenzo de El Escorial	Lives in Madrid with his mother and brothers.
1902–1910	Madrid, calle Sombrerete	Primary education in the catholic school Escuelas Pías.
1910–1911	Madrid	Works as a shop assistant.
Aug 1911–Aug 1914	Madrid	Works as a clerical officer for the Crédit Lyonnais branch in Madrid.
1912	Madrid	Joins the socialist trade union UGT (Unión General de Trabajadores), becoming one of its first white collar affiliates.
1915	Madrid	Works for a diamond trading company. Travels to Paris.
1916	Guadalajara/Spain	Uses the money from an inheritance to open a toy factory, but this venture fails.
1917	Guadalajara/Spain	Works for an engine factory.
Nov 1920–Feb 1923	Morocco	Serves in the Spanish Army during the War of the Rif in Morocco. Witnesses the slaughter of Annual in 1921.
Feb 1923–Jan 1935	Madrid	Lives in Madrid
1924	Madrid	Marries Aurelia Rimaldos, with whom he would have four children.
Mar 1924–Aug 1936	Madrid C/ Alcalá	Works for a patenting company.
1931–1936	Madrid	Renews his political activities in the trade union UGT and the Socialist Party.
Jan 1935–Mar 1936	Noves/Toledo	Campaigns in favour of the Socialist Party.
Mar 1936–Nov 1937	Madrid, calle Ave María	Returns to Madrid.
Sep 1936–Nov 1937	Madrid, Gran Vía	Works as a censor in the foreign press office during the war.
Jan 1937	Madrid	Meets the Austrian journalist and translator Ilse Kulcsar who soon became his partner.
1937	Madrid	During the war in Madrid, he serves as a censor of foreign correspondents. Meets John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway and other foreign correspondents
May 1937	Madrid	Divorces his wife, Aurelia Rimaldos.
Jun–Sep 1937	Madrid	Becomes a broadcaster for the National Radio under the pseudonym of "La Voz de Madrid".
Nov 1937–Feb 1938	Paris Valencia	Due to his problems with certain members of the Communist Party, Barea leaves Madrid. Stays in Valencia and Barcelona.
1938	Veracruz/Mexico	Goes into exile in Paris.
Feb 1938	Madrid	Marries the Austrian journalist Ilse Kulcsar.
Feb 1938–Mar 1939	Paris, 35, Rue Delambre	Lives in Paris, where he suffers a nervous breakdown and severe economic problems. Here he writes the first chapters of La forja de un rebelde.
22 Feb 1938	Paris	Leaves Spain.
1939	Farringdon	Goes to live in the UK
Mar–Sep 1939	Puckeridge/Hertfordshire	Settles in a small town. Ilsa works for the BBC.
Aug 1939	Evesham	Publishes his first article in the UK, in the newspaper The Spectator.
Sep 1939–1943	Fladbury, Worcestershire	Moves to be closer to Ilsa's work in the BBC.
Oct 1940–1957	Evesham	Daily broadcasts for the BBC in Spanish, under the pseudonym of "Juan de Castilla", on English life as seen by a Spaniard to counter anti-UK Nazi propaganda in Latin America. Meets several intellectuals in Britain such as Ernst Gombrich, Leonard Shapiro, Cyril Connoly, Isabel de Madariaga, Martin Esslin, Gerarld Brenan, Peter Chalmers Mitchell.
Oct 1943	Mapledurham	Moves to be closer to the new location of the BBC.
1945–1947	London, Boar's Hill	Settles in London. Becomes a close friend of Salvador de Madariaga and the Catalan publisher Joan Gili.
1946	Danmark	Travels to Denmark to give a series of lectures.
Jun 1947–1957	Faringdon/Oxfordshire	Settles in Oxfordshire.
1948	London	Becomes a British citizen.
Feb–Aug 1952	Pittsburgh	Travels to the USA, where he is invited to lecture on Contemporary Spanish Literature in Pennsylvania State College.
1956–1957	Buenos Aires	Writes articles for the Argentinian newspaper La Nación.
Apr–Jun 1956	Buenos Aires Montevideo Santiago de Chile Córdoba/argentina Mendoza	Travels to South America, where he gives several talks after the success of the Spanish version of La forja de un rebelde.

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Works

Barea, Arturo La forja London: Faber & Faber, 1941.
——— La ruta London: Faber & Faber, 1943.
——— La llama London: Faber & Faber, 1944.
——— Lorca, the poet and his people London: Faber & Faber, 1945.
——— La raíz rota London: Faber & Faber, 1951.
——— Unamuno New Haven: Yale University, 1952.
——— El centro de la pista Madrid: Cid, 1960.

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Works About

Triumph at Midnight in the Century A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea Sussex Academic Pr, 2008.
Altisent, Marta E. Autobiografía, testimonio y propaganda en la ficción de Arturo Barea Ed. Aznar Soler, Manuel, 2003.
Asselineau, Roger The literary reputation of Hemingway in Europe [New York: New York University Press, 1965.
Baker, Carlos Hemingway and his critics, an international anthology New York: Hill and Wang, 1961.
Barea, Arturo La loca cordura de Don Quijote Ed. García Sánchez, Jesús, 2005.
Barea, Arturo, Townson, Nigel Palabras recobradas : textos inéditos Madrid: Debate Editorial, 2000.
Connolly, Cyril Horizon stories New York: Vanguard Press, 1946.
Duff, Charles Freedom for Spain! London: International Pub. Co., 1945.
Eaude, Michael Arturo Barea : unflinching eye. life and work of a working-class writer Bristol: University of Bristol, 1996.
Eaude, Michel “Una mirada impasible” Barcelona: Montesinos, 1997.
Eaude, Michael Arturo Barea: triunfo en la medianoche del siglo Mérida : Editora Regional de Extremadura, 2001, 2001.
Echevarría, Megan Mercedes La obra narrativa de Arturo Barea 2004.
Fernández Gutiérrez, José María, Herrera Rodrigo, María La Narrativa de la guerra civil, Arturo Barea Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, PPU, 1988.
Gillespie, Edward V. Arturo Barea y la generaciÃ³n de 1898 : su critica social sobre EspaÃ±a 1964.
Granata de Egües, Gladys Arturo Barea en la Argentina Ed. Lois, Elida, Martínez Cuitiño, Luis, Buenos Aires : Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas , [1993], 1993.
Lingens, Ella Prisoners of fear London: Gollancz, 1948.
Lunsford, Kern L. La forja de un rebelde de Arturo Barea : relato autobiográfico de las causas ideológicas de la Guerra Civil Española 1984.
Miller, John C. Los testimonios literarios de la guerra español-marroquí : Arturo Barea, José Díaz Fernández, Ernesto Giménez Caballero, Ramón Sender Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published for Gettysburg College by University Microfilms International, 1978.
Miralles García, Enrique “La guerra de la escritura: elecciones discursivas de los escritores-soldados en la campaña militar sober Marruecos (1920-1924)” 2005.
Aznar Soler, Manuel, Monferrer Catalán, Luis La colaboración de Arturo Barea, "Juan de Castilla", en la BBC Barcelona : GEXEL, 1998, 1998.
Monferrer, L. “Michael Eaude, Arturo Barea. Triunfo en la medianoche del siglo” 2004.
Ponce de León, Luis Cuatro novelistas de la guerra civil de España (1936-1939) 1967.
Pontoni Tapia, Gladys Análisis estructural de "La Forja de un rebelde" de Arturo Barea Santiago de Chile: 1966.
RodrÃguez Monegal, Emir Tres testigos espaÃ±oles de la guerra civil [Caracas: Monte Avila Editores, 1971.
Rodrigo, Maria Herrera “La narrativa breve del exilio republicano - El joven rebelde que quiso ser payaso. Arturo Barea en El centro de la pista” Barcelona: Montesinos, 2005.
Rodríguez Fontela, María de los Angeles Poética da novela de autoafirmacián: o Bildungsroman galego no contexto narrativo hispánico Santiago de Compostela: Centro de Investigacións Linguisticas e Literarias "Ramón Piñeiro" : Xunta de Galicia, 1996.
Rodríguez Richart, José “Valor y miedo y La forja de un rebelde, de Arturo Barea” 1993.
Roger-Henrichsen, Gudmund De tÃ¥lte ikke tvang--essays og taler [KÃ¸benhavn: Schultz, 1948.
Torres Nebrera, Gregorio Las anudadas raíces de Arturo Barea [Badajoz]: Diputación de Badajoz, Departamento de Publicaciones, 2002.
Weiss, Samuel A. Drama in the modern world: plays and essays Boston: Heath, 1964.

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