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Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War: a dossier

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2014

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Calver, Katherine Elizabeth
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Abstract

The editors of Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, which was
published in London by the Left Review in 1937, posed two questions
to a list of writers: "Are you for, or against, the legal Government
and the People of Republican Spain? Are you for, or against, Franco
and Fascism?" The question was distributed by mail to hundreds of
writers in the United Kingdom to solicit responses for publication.
The editors' appeal closes: "We wish the world to know what you,
writers and poets, who are amongst the most sensitive instruments of
a nation, feel." Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War consists of
brief remarks from 148 contributors in a "10,000 word" pamphlet.  
Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War contains many influential
writers' opinions on one of the most significant conflicts of the
twentieth century, but the publication has since received almost no
editorial attention. The pamphlet was reissued in 2001 as a
photoduplication of the original--without commentary or
annotation--and due to a printer's error, it is missing two leaves.  
This annotated edition of Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War
includes an archive of related correspondence, articles, and other
writings pertinent to the pamphlet and the political, social, and
cultural climate of Europe around the Spanish Civil War. Of
particular interest are unpublished documents related to the
publication of the pamphlet from the Nancy Cunard archive at the
University of Texas-Austin's Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities,
as well as an examination of textual decisions and revisions within
the work of Arthur Koestler and six other authors who wrote on the
Spanish Civil War. It is in this way that this edition of Authors
Take Sides on the Spanish War also takes on many of the qualities of
a dossier in that it brings together documentary evidence of a
certain kind to provide a range of perspectives on this cultural and
historical moment.

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