
Ilsa Barea
Ilsa Barea is the author of Vienna: Legend and Reality, first published in 1966 and reissued by Faber Finds in 2012. A journalist, author and translator, she was born in Vienna in 1902 as Ilse Pollak. Her second husband was Arturo Barea, whom she met in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and whose trio of autobiographical novels, known in English as The Forging of a Rebel, she would subsequently translate to great acclaim. After 1939 the Bareas lived in exile in England, writing and working for the BBC. Arturo died in 1957, Ilsa in 1973. They are buried together at Faringdon Churchyard in Oxfordshire.
Books by Ilsa Barea
Vienna
Ilsa Barea
'I wanted to reveal the soil, milieu, or social sphere and situation, from which the contributions of Vienna to European civilisation have sprung ... I hope it is not my incurable ...
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