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Letters
Author(s): Martha GellhornSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Martha Gellhorn; Spain - Civil War; Hemingway; Eleanor Roosevelt; Hitler; Spain; Germany; Allen Grover; Cuba; Charles Scribner; David Gurewitsch; Washington; Adlai Stevenson; Tom Matthews; fascism; American refugees; McCarthyism; Vietnam; Leonard Bernstei
Summary/Abstract: The fragments form The Letters of Martha Gellhorn contain letters to friends, relatives and acquaintances (among which Eleanor Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway and Leonard Bernstein) that offer a complex portrait of one of the most outstanding war correspondents and cultural personalities of the 20th century. From the Civil War in Spain, to the Middle East conflicts and the wars in Vietnam or Panama, she was a witness of the armed conflicts, of the social and cultural realities of the world in turmoil. The letters stand proof for both the objective eye of the journalist that depicts reality in its complexity, and the human being reaching out for friendship and love, and the writer harassed by doubts or thrilled by various subjects that she could use in her books.
Journal: Lettre Internationale - Ediţia română
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 64
- Page Range: 68-76
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Romanian
