Meet Me on the Barricades
Meet Me on the Barricades is a hallucinatory, comic novel about leftism, modernism, and the Spanish Civil War. It features a guileless protagonist whose weak heart means that, instead of fighting on the battlefields of Spain, he daydreams about life as a soldier.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7766-2368-9
- EAN: 9780776623689
- Produktnummer: 19745359
- Verlag: Durnell
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 204 g
- Gewicht: 204
Über den Autor
Charles Yale Harrison (1898-1954) was an author, activist, and editor. Harrison born in Philadelphia and raised in a Jewish family in Montreal. He served in World War One, an experience that would influence much of his subsequent fiction. A dedicated fellow traveller, Harrison moved from Montreal to New York in the 1920s, where he worked on the staff of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA)-led magazine New Masses alongside outspoken literary critics of proletarian literature such as Mike Gold. He was also a founding member of one of a series of John Reed Clubs, established in 1929 in an attempt to create a large forum for leftist writers. Drawing on his own service in the First World War, he published Generals Die in Bed (1930), a scathingly anti-war novel about the horrors of trench warfare. The novel was well received, and was followed by the novels A Child is Born (1931), There are Victories (1933), Meet Me on the Barricades (1938), and Nobody's Fool (1948). He also authored a biography of the American socialist lawyer Clarence Darrow (1931), and the self-help book Thank God For My Heart Attack (1949).
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