Spender, the Spanish War and the boundaries of autobiography
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Autobiography, Marxism, Spanish war, sacrifice culture, political disappointmentAbstract
During the thirties, the poet Stephen Spender slowly approached Marxist ideals and eventually, in the first days of Jan 1937, joined the Communist Party, which he quit after his experience in the Spanish war. With the story of his conversion to Marxism and his violent incantation, Spender’s autobiography World within a World broaches, among several topics, a set of fundamental questions concerning the limits of autobiography and the nature of autobiographical writing.
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