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Subject: [Leica] Cuba and Spanish Civil War
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Sun Jan 4 12:09:59 2009
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And the novel as a genre was invented by Spaniards !
The name says it.
Don who? Giovanni or Quixote?
Smolett came later in the English literature (in the manner of Cervantes 
is the incipit of The Expedition of Humphy Clinker, considered as one of 
the first epistolary novel in English) , we all have so much to learn 
from you , starting with the siestas, and ?
senioritas ;-)

Amiti?s de Metz glac?e
Philippe


Lluis Ripoll wrote:

> Merci Philippe!
>
> Glad to see that you aso love Ernest...
>
> Salut!
> Lluis
>
>
> El 04/01/2009, a las 20:37, Philippe AMARD escribi?:
>
>>
>>
>> Lluis Ripoll wrote:
>>
>>> I don't kow who has said that Cuban was implied in the Spanish  
>>> Civil  War. as far as I know it was not Cubans fihting in the  
>>> Spanish Civil  War.
>>>
>>> The Spanish Civil War was from 1936 - 1939, Cuban Revolution 1959.  
>>> On  the Spanish Civil war it was some great american people who  
>>> cames here  voluntary to fight against the fascism, if I'm not  
>>> wrong, Hemingway  was one of these, at least he wrote a book "Por  
>>> quien doban las  campanas"
>>
>>
>> Title in English is: For whom tolls the bell
>> A wonderful 'novel' !
>> I've read it four or five times, along with Fiesta, and Death in the  
>> Afternoon.
>>
>> The Old man and the Lumix ;-)
>>
>>
>>> (I'm sorry I don't know the English title), after it was a  film  
>>> with Gary Cooper, this film was of course prrohibited in Spain   
>>> during the Franco's dictature.
>>>
>>> I've never been in Cuba, I know many people has visited, the people  
>>> is  poor but Cubans are a great people, as well the American,  
>>> Spanish, or  any other in the world. The people is one thing and  
>>> the political  circumstances is another thing. My wife and her  
>>> family has a Cuban  origin and I have heard many things about the  
>>> Revolution and Cuba, and  want visit it too.
>>>
>>> Beside these comments I think that Tina's sensibility and eye will   
>>> produce really great images, I'm already impatient to see it, TINA  
>>> go  soon and show us soon your pictures..., finally this is the  
>>> main  reason of the LUG.
>>>
>>> Saludos cordiales
>>> Lluis
>>>
>>>
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