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Article: Resurrecting history. (Spanish art, history, and the 1936-1939 civil war)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 6, 1996
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THE Spanish civil war was one of the most polarising of modern conflicts, and one of the most consistently romanticised. The Ernest Hemingways saw only the egalitarian idealism of the men of the left, the Roy Campbells lauded the right's dedication to law, order and Catholic virtue. George Orwell, it is true, recognised something subtler than a knockout contest between good and evil, but he stood alone.
They, of course, were writers, and foreigners to boot. But within Spain itself, the war and its aftermath carved deep ideological divisions that -for long undebated, even unacknowledged, in public -mark politics and society to this day. Pushed by a ...