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The brief summer of anarchy: the life and death of Durruti
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
http://libcom.org/history/brief-summer-anarchy-life-death-durruti-hans-magnus-enzensbergerDate Written: 1972-05-01 Publisher: libcom.org Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20630 Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s non-fiction "adventure novel" about Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchist movement (ca. 1917-1937), first published in Germany in 1972, consisting of a more or less chronological “collage” of "translated, abridged and rearranged" excerpts from "reports and speeches, interviews and proclamations … letters, travel narratives, anecdotes, pamphlets, polemics, newspaper articles, autobiographical texts, flyers and propaganda leaflets" (including extensive selections from the eyewitness accounts of Simone Weil, Ilya Ehrenburg, H. E. Kaminski, Mikhail Koltsov, Ricardo Sanz and Jesús Arnal Pena), punctuated by the author's "Commentaries". Abstract: - Excerpt: The coffin arrived in Barcelona late at night. It rained all day, and the cars in the funeral cortege were covered with mud. The black and red flag that draped the hearse was also filthy. At the anarchist headquarters, which had been the headquarters of the employers association before the war, preparations had already been underway since the previous day. Subject Headings |