An edition of Spanish Testament (1937)

Diálogo con la muerte

Un testamento español

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An edition of Spanish Testament (1937)

Diálogo con la muerte

Un testamento español

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Detenido por las tropas franquistas en 1937 cuando estaba en Málaga como corresponsal extranjero para cubrir la guerra civil, y condenado a muerte por espionaje, Arthur Koestler esperó durante tres meses su ejecución en la cárcel de Sevilla. Un testamento español, publicado por primera vez en Inglaterra en 1937, relata en forma de diálogo carcelario esa espera, ese diálogo consigo mismo, esa meditación sobre la vida y la muerte de la que Koestler, hombre de acción, no se podía librar. Las circunstancias en las que esas páginas se publicaron obligaron en aquella época a Koestler a silenciar ciertos hechos esenciales, en particular su pertenencia al partido comunista, sus vínculos con el Komintern y sus relaciones con los republicanos españoles. En 1966, Koestler decidió corregir sus memorias y presentar al lector una versión completa de los acontecimientos rebautizda como Diálogo con la muerte.

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Amaranto
Language
Spanish

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Cover of: Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
Apr 01, 2011, University of Chicago Press
paperback
Cover of: Diálogo con la muerte
Diálogo con la muerte: Un testamento español
2004, Amaranto
Tapa dura in Spanish
Cover of: Un testament espagnol
Un testament espagnol
September 26, 1986, Albin Michel
Paperback in French
Cover of: Ein spanisches Testament
Ein spanisches Testament: mit Vorworten des Verfassers und der Herzogin von Atholl.
1980, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag
in German
Cover of: Dialogue With Death the Journal of a Condemned Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War Danube Edition
Cover of: Un testament espagnol
Un testament espagnol
1966, Éditions Albin Michel
in French
Cover of: Un testament espagnol
Un testament espagnol
1946, Éditions Albin Michel
Paperback in French
Cover of: Spanish Testament. With an introduction by the Duchess of Atholl
Cover of: Spanish testament
Spanish testament
1937, Gollancz
in English
Cover of: Spanish testament
Spanish testament
1937, Gollancz
Cover of: Spanish testament.
Spanish testament.
1937, Gollancz
in English
Cover of: Spanish Testament - Left Book Club Edition
Spanish Testament - Left Book Club Edition
1937-01-01, VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD, LONDON
Cover of: Spanish testament
Spanish testament
1937, V. Gollancz ltd.
in English
Cover of: Spanish testament
Spanish testament
1937, Gollancz
in English

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Edition Notes

Translation Of
Spanish Testament
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
José Erezuma

The Physical Object

Format
Tapa dura
Pagination
274 p.
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL47281700M
ISBN 10
8493145769
ISBN 13
9788493145767
OCLC/WorldCat
433711866

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Arrested by Franco's troops in 1937 while he was in Malaga as a foreign correspondent covering the civil war, and sentenced to death for espionage, Arthur Koestler awaited his execution in Seville prison for three months. *A Spanish Testament’, first published in England in 1937, recounts in the form of a prison dialogue this waiting, this dialogue with himself, this meditation on life and death from which Koestler, a man of action, could not escape. The circumstances in which these pages were published at the time forced Koestler to silence certain essential facts, in particular his membership of the Communist Party, his links with the Komintern and his relations with the Spanish Republicans. In 1966, Koestler decided to correct his memoirs and present the reader with a complete version of the events, renamed Dialogue with Death.

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