A Moment Of War

"A Moment of War" is the magnificent conclusion to Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy begun in "Cider with Rosie" and "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning". It was December 1937 when the young Laurie Lee crossed the Pyrenees and walked into the bitter winter of the Spanish Civil War. With great vividness and poignancy, Lee portrays the brave defeat of youthful idealism in Auden's 'low dishonest decade'. Writing in the "Literary Review", John Sweeney praised the memoir as, 'A great, heart-st...

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telans29 марта 2012 г.
Совершенно неожиданно - довольно скучно.
Тема guerra-civil-española меня безумно интересует - Хеммингуэй, Оруэлл, Неруда и вот теперь Лори Ли. 1937 год, зима, блуждание сквозь Пиренеи, неорганизованные силы республиканцев в Каталонии, абсолютно не запоминающиеся (ни чем) люди, появляющихся то тут, то там на страницах книги, воспоминания о войне, которые не трогают совершенно. Разочарование. Сумашедше-солнечно-соленая Испания, где ты? Что за страну под твоим именем описал Ли?..

...Вы падали не раз - растерты руки,
хрящи измолоты, рот запечатан,
но в разгаре боя
вставали снова вы,
и новые вставали,
обугленные,
неистребимые,
люди сердца и корней.
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telans29 марта 2012 г.
Then the station lights were switched off. An inert kind of stillness smothered the city, a stretched and expectant waiting. Then from the blank eastern sky, far out over the sea, came a fine point of sound, growing to a deep throbbing roar, advancing steadily overhead towards us. Such a sound that the women on the platform had learned to beware of, but which to us was only an aircraft at night. And which, as we listened, changed from the familiar, casual passage of peace to one of malignant purpose. The fatal sound which Spain was the first country in Europe to know, but with which most of the world would soon be visited.
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telans29 марта 2012 г.
I believe, we shared something else, unique to us at that time - the chance to make one grand, uncomplicated gesture of personal sacrifice and faith which might never occur again. Certainly, it was the last time this century that a generation had such an opportunity before the fog of nationalism and mass-slaughter closed in.
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telans27 марта 2012 г.
He was a deserter, he said; and seemed quite cheerful about it, laughing at the looking-glass differences between us. I was trying to get into the war, and he was trying to get out of it, and here we were, stuffed into the same black hole. I’d come over the mountains from France, and he’d been caught going the other way, and most certainly now, he said, we’d both be shot.
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