Fascinating book. Pedro Corral settles into the Spanish Civil War to reflect on how playwrights and filmmakers, actresses and actors, directors and businessmen, fashion designers and extras, the world of theater and film, evolved, ultimately the universe of comedians.
Pedro Corral is a longtime journalist; is an excellent novelist; he is an expert in extensive culture and objective juicio, it is a talent in which equanimidad shines. The author is not wrong in that he can distinguish. Remember what happened to Pedro Muñoz Seca, the writer of large volumes, disgustingly poisoned. But in this case he is held, illuminated with admiration, that’s it Federico García Lorca.
Post a photo so I don’t recognize her the poet spends time with Rodríguez Rapúnone of the loves of his life, to whom he dedicated them Sonnets of dark love. The publication of these poems in the ABC newspaper has been the most exclusive part of my extended professional life.
Pedro Corral writes literary tears for a poet, seduced and persecuted by Rapun, who was killed three times by a French Air Force bomber. The book is further expanded to include the cast of the theater group La Barraca. Sad page “barracks” in front of the war council extremes.
Casona and his initial enthusiasm for the Republican Party celebrated the chapter Comedians at War (La Esfera de los Libros). And when I came to it, I fell in love with Rafael Alberti, who was above all a writer. Celia Gámez appears at the Parador de Gredos, rescued by the Vencedors. Payasos Pompoff and Thedy encandilaron to the reds. Campúa, a pioneer of photoperiodism, was invited by Argentine actor Francisco Carol.
Beautifully written, solidly documented, mainly objective, the reader with good literary taste will read the short story ‘Comics at War’
A festival organized by the ABC “for the benefit of the heroes and victims of the sixteenth century” was celebrated amid military shouts and bloodshed, bombs and pipe grenades. In the dueño of the Fontalba theater, the Marquis de Cubas, they were drawn without a leg.
Rafaela Aparicio was an admirable niñita, caught in the red zone. At the end of the war, he signed a declaration in favor of a Frankish victory. The case of Estrellita Castro cannot be trusted. I stayed in all the bands and managed to survive. He also worked in Germany before the dictator Hitler. I maintained a relationship with Antonio Diéguez, who ended up abandoned. Margarita Xirgu shines in the book together with director Cipriano Rivas Cherif at the Teatro Español.
The German Bleiberg presents a picture of Pedro Corral in his book. a young writer with a dear de niño, José Hierro. With him, later the central theme, I had great literary conversations in my ABC story, when the poet, academic elector of the Royal Spanish Academy, once lived in an oxygen tank.
Bleiberg studied Garcilas, Fray Luis, Juan Ramón Jiménez and recorded his war verses until his death in 1990: “I read the sad hours, I survived the years, I signed myself in the looks lost in the shipwreck”. The story of José Lorente Granero is thrillingprisoner of nationals. They threw them out, but mercifully survived the blow. En El mono azulVicente Aleixandre dedicated a poem to milagro.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela put them in the box. Five militiamen tortured the author Eloísa is under the boy. They were taken to the Palacio de Medinaceli in the Plaza de Colón, which is now gone, but I knew them and still admire their impressive library. Freed from the chest, Jardiel entered his house and did not go to her for six months.
Niní Montian, a member of the nations, lived in fear in Madrid, but was saved by a passionate romance with socialist gunman Enrique Puente. For María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara sometieron included in the fusilamiento simulacra.
Disciple of Carlos Arniches, Pilar Millán-Astray sufrió watch outalthough I survived while Rafael Alberti was performing at the Spanish Theatre Los salvadores de Españawhich the Republican ban censored by suppressing criticism of Hitler, Mussolini and Salazar. The performance was attended by María Teresa León, and the Guerrillas del Teatro in new jobs performed at El Pardo Palace, the future seat of the dictator Franco. We also share the living story of Álvarez Quintero.
And so there are more than ten stories in this interesting book. Beautifully written by Pedro Corral, solidly documented, mostly objective, a reader with good literary taste will read a lot Comedians at War.
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