by Carlos Rojas · Ediciones Nauta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427802728
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«Diez figuras ante la guerra civil» is the historical essay by Carlos Rojas, published in 1973 by Ediciones Nauta in hardcover (671 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together ten biographical sketches of political, intellectual and artistic figures from 1930s Spain, such as Manuel Azaña, Dolores Ibárruri, Antonio Machado, José Ortega y Gasset, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Picasso and Unamuno, and relates them to the Spanish Civil War and its consequences.
It belongs to the collection «Los Libros de la veleta», Documents series, number 6. It includes bibliographies and numerous black-and-white photographs.
For readers of contemporary Spanish history and biographies of its protagonists.
Carlos Rojas is an American sinologist and translator. He is currently Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. He is a cultural historian and his work and teachings primarily focus on Chinese culture. He also teaches the subjects of film, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000. Before his professorship at Duke, Rojas was Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Film at the University of Florida. Rojas lives in Durham, North Carolina.
