{"id":10818,"date":"2017-05-31T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2017-05-31T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:36:55","slug":"end-solo-singing-revisit-monarchists-epic-spanish-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2017\/05\/end-solo-singing-revisit-monarchists-epic-spanish-civil-war.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Was the End of Solo Singing&#8221;: I revisit a monarchist&#8217;s epic about the Spanish Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for the University Bookman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Eric Hobsbawm suggested that the period 1914\u20131991 could be called \u201cthe short twentieth century,\u201d he not only defined an era but separated it from our own. Few conflicts are as emblematic of that final modern century than the Spanish Civil War; the familiar English-language writings on the war can seem remote from us, Orwell and Hemingway. If you want to see what\u2019s only too contemporary in the Spanish clash of ideologies, turn to a novel by a man of the Spanish Right: Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Gironella\u2019s 1953 epic <em>The Cypresses Believe in God<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkcenter.org\/bookman\/article\/it-was-the-end-of-solo-singing\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for the University Bookman: When Eric Hobsbawm suggested that the period 1914\u20131991 could be called \u201cthe short twentieth century,\u201d he not only defined an era but separated it from our own. 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