On Sundays in September, Ernest Hemingway returns to the Teatro del Barrio, with a monologue about the last hours of the American writer and journalist, recalling his journalistic chronicles of the Spanish war of 1936, entitled Enviado especial, a monologue performed by José Fernández.
The work, whose version in dramatised reading format was premiered in January 2022 and is now being staged as a theatrical production, also takes the spectator back to the last days of the Nobel Prize winner for Literature: “From his room 109 in the Hotel Florida, located in Plaza de Callao, Hemingway recounted the Spanish Civil War while waging a war against himself”, explains Mario Hernández, director of the work.
Few episodes in the history of humanity have aroused as much commitment from intellectuals from all over the world as the war of 1936. The motivations were many: to fight in the militias or the International Brigades, to work in the press, to take part in the International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture in 1937… Gabriela Mistral, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Bertolt Brecht, John Dos Passos, Graham Greene, André Malraux, Thomas Mann, Pablo Neruda, George Orwell, Antoine de St. Exupéry, Jean-Paul de Gaulle, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tristan Tzara and Simone Weil were “volunteers with glasses”, as Mikhail Koltsov dubbed them. And, of course, Ernest Hemingway was also on the list. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
