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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Stricken Field (1940)di Martha Gellhorn
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Martha Gellhorn was an American journalist who served as a war correspondent for most of her 60-year career. As she wrote in the afterword to A Stricken Field, “I had no qualification except eyes and ears; I learned as I went. In 1938, I became a foreign correspondent as well, again because I was on the spot. My qualification was that I had spent most of my life since 1930 in Europe, involved in politics the way a tadpole is involved in a pond.” Gellhorn left Europe in January 1939. A Stricken Field represents somewhat of a catharsis, spilling her “accumulated rage and grief” by sharing her experience in Czechoslovakia. Mary Douglas, an American journalist clearly modeled on Gellhorn herself, arrives in Prague shortly after the Munich Agreement, which ceded a portion of Czechoslovakia to Germany in an attempt to avoid war. But this resulted in refugees being expelled from Prague to face concentration camps, prison, or death in their countries of origin. The situation becomes more personal when it directly impacts Mary’s friend Rita, and Mary attempts to use her journalist credentials to influence government officials. This is an intense, dramatic, and ultimately sad book. It’s also difficult to read today, when the world is dealing with a myriad of refugee crises with so many obstacles in the way and seemingly no end in sight. A Stricken Field is well-written, but perhaps not for everyone. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Martha Gellhorn was one of the first--and most widely read--female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she was also an acclaimed novelist. In 1938, before the Munich pact, Gellhorn visited Prague and witnessed its transformation from a proud democracy preparing to battle Hitler to a country occupied by the German army. Born out of this experience, A Stricken Field follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the country both frustrating and futile. A convincing account of a people under the brutal oppression of the Gestapo, A Stricken Field is Gellhorn's most powerful work of fiction. "[A] brave, final novel. Its writing is quick with movement and with sympathy; its people alive with death, if one can put it that way. It leaves one with aching heart and questing mind."--New York Herald Tribune "The translation of [Gellhorn's] personal testimony into the form of a novel has . . . force and point."--Times Literary Supplement Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Review written March 2019 ( )