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18101618 No.18101618 [Reply] [Original]

Which book on the Spanish civil war should I read first, Orwell's Hommage to Catalonia or Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls?

>> No.18101623
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>>18101618

>> No.18101637

>>18101618
Read Orwell, he isn't a poofter and got shot there.

>> No.18101775

>>18101618
Orwell gives more historical context where Hemingway just assumes you know that stuff. Makes sense to start with Orwell

>> No.18102110

>>18101637
How does it matter that he got shot?

>> No.18102121

Blue of Noon

>> No.18102167

>>18101623
This is only correct answer

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>>18101618
This unironically.

>> No.18102489

>>18102110
He was in the action, unlike that Hemingway faggot who was hanging around with women the whole time.

>> No.18102583

>>18102489
Dom't you think that was also an important part of the civil war?

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no one ever mentions Man's hope by Andre Malreuax and its a dying shame. read that anon, its got multiple perspectives on the war and its ending is tragically beautiful. That firefighter scene is burned into my mind.

>> No.18102769

Spanish songs in Andalucía
The shooting sites in the days of '39
Oh, please, leave the vendanna open
Federico Lorca is dead and gone
Bullet holes in the cemetery walls
The black cars of the Guardia Civil
Spanish bombs on the Costa Rica
I'm flying in a DC 10 tonight
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero infinito
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero infinito
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón
Spanish weeks in my disco casino
The freedom fighters died upon the hill
They sang the red flag
They wore the black one
But after they died it was Mockingbird Hill
Back home the buses went up in flashes
The Irish tomb was drenched in blood
Spanish bombs shatter the hotels
My senorita's rose was nipped in the bud
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero infinito
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero infinito
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón
The hillsides ring with "Free the people"
Or can I hear the echo from the days of '39?
With trenches full of poets
The ragged army, fixin' bayonets to fight the other line
Spanish bombs rock the province
I'm hearing music from another time
Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava
I'm flying in on a DC 10 tonight
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero infinito
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero infinito
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón
Oh mi corazón, oh mi corazón
Spanish songs in Andalucía, Mandolina, oh mi corazón
Spanish songs in Granada, oh mi corazón
Oh mi corazón, oh mi corazón
Oh mi corazón

>> No.18102998

>>18102583
It doesn't matter. My answer is read Orwell over Hemingway.

>> No.18103309

>>18102998
read malreaux