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The dark horse of Durban
The literary world came down firmly on one side of the Spanish Civil War. Of 121 responses to W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender’s questionnaire for the 1937 book Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, 100 were pro-republic (Samuel Beckett’s reply was “¡ …