By Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has turn into the vintage account of the historical past to the Spanish Civil warfare. Written in the course of and instantly after the Civil struggle, this ebook has the entire vividness of the author's adventure. It represents a fight to work out the problems in Spanish politics objectively, while bearing witness to the deep involvement that is the single attainable resource of a lot of this richly special account. As a literary determine at the edge of the Bloomsbury crew, Gerald Brenan lends to this narrative an enticing own type that has familiarize yourself to many hundreds of thousands of readers over the a long time because it used to be first released.
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Yet one should remember the ascetic side to this ideal of the leisured life, which redeems it from baseness and vulgarity. The hidalgo was ready to give up comfort, to suffer cold and hunger if he could live with honour. Putting this in other words, one may say that Spaniards became accustomed to living for great and spectacular ends, and declined when the bourgeois ideal of work, perseverance and duty, became the only one which could create or hold together society. This leads one to ask what precisely is required if Spain is to play her part once more in European civilization.
Passage of Catalan Autonomy Statute Jan. I. in Barcelona. Casas Viejas April Municipal elections to the burgos podridos Nov. Second Cortes of Republic elected Dec. T. in Aragon Jan. Esquerra defeat Lliga in elections to Generalidad. Alianza Obrera founded by Largo Caballero and Maurin April Generalidad passes Ley de Cultivos June Campesinos’ strike Oct. Rising of Generalidad in Barcelona and of miners in Asturias Dec. Straperlo scandal. Government Feb. M.
Especially Spanish contempt for work. After the few cloth industries that had grown up in Castile declined and Spaniards became a rentier race, a nation of gentlemen, living in parasitic dependence upon the gold and silver of the Indies and the industry of the Low Countries. This is, after all, the common fate of hardy and primitive races that conquer advanced civilizations. The history of the East (where pastoral races alternately conquer and are absorbed by agricultural ones) is full of such rapid rises and declines.