Research Catalog

Title

Mientras los hombres mueren / Carmen Conde ; edited with an introduction, critical analysis, notes and vocabulary by Jean Andrews.

Author

Conde, Carmen, 1907-1996.

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Andrews, Jean, 1962-

Description

xi, 175 p. : port.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Though neglected up to now, "Mientras los hombres mueren" is the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It was first published, in a limited edition, in Italy in 1953. Though it has been included in its entirety in anthologies of her work published in Spain in 1967, 1986 and 2007, this is the first free-standing edition since 1953 and the first ever critical edition." "The collection was written in 1938-39, in Valencia, then the seat of the Republican Government. In prose poetry densely packed with imagery of nightmarish destruction, Conde gives voice to the experience of women and children suffering bombardment from air and sea, hunger and homelessness, and the loss of husbands, brothers and fathers at the front. The second half of the collection, "A los ninos muertos en la guerra", is an extended elegy for all those children killed in bombing raids during the war." --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Hispanic texts

Uniform Title

Hispanic texts.

Subject

• 1936-1939
• War poetry, Spanish
• Poesía española de guerra
• Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Poetry
• España > Historia > Guerra Civil, 1936-1939 > Poesía

Genre/Form

• History
• Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-38).

Language (note)

• Spanish text; introductory material and notes in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Mientras los hombres mueren -- Temas de debate y discusion.

ISBN

• 9780719077524 (pbk.)
• 0719077524 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 318672109
• SCSB-10641219

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library