Swan Isle Press

Celia in the Revolution

New edition

Elena Fortún
Translated by Michael Ugarte
With a Foreword by Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles

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University of Chicago Press

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Celia in the Revolution – Swan Isle Press The first major English translation of the final book in the expansive and essential "Celia” series by Elena Fortún. Set during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), Celia in the Revolution is the last in a series of young adult novels written by Encarnación Aragoneses, known by the pen name Elena ...

“It was impossible to feel oneself an exceptional stranger in a place where there were so many strangers. It was a city of immigrants; everybody was in some sense displaced. But everybody was also in a sense enthusiastic, full of enterprise, full of a wonderful gayety, a feeling of opportunity, freedom, liberation from old ties.”

Literature laureate Saul Bellow spoke of growing up in his home town of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Born on this day in 1915, Bellow is considered one of the innovators of the American novel. He based his books on people in their environment. And every now and then, Chicago served as a backdrop for his stories.

Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 50 years ago "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.”

Learn more about his childhood in 1920s Chicago by watching our short documentary: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1976/bellow/documentary/