When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literature and Philosophy
- Quevedo (1.143, 11.74, 13.68)
- Lope de Vega (11.68), Fuente Ovejuna (18.40)
- Galdos (11.68)
- Mayakovsky (13.63)
- Gertrude Stein (24.19)
- "Declaration of Independence" (26.31)
- "Declaration of the Rights of Man" (26.31)
- Genesis (31.20)
Historical Figures
- Calvin Coolidge (15.102)
- Ulysses S. Grant (18.16, 18.37)
- Abd el-Karim (18.36)
- John S. Mosby (18.46, 30.32-4)
- Sherman (18.47)
- Sheridan (18.47, 30.32-3)
- Stonewall Jackson (18.47)
- McClellan (18.47)
- Franco (18.121)
- Cortez (31.163, 35.4)
- Menendez de Avila (31.163, 35.4)
- Pizarro (31.163)
Spanish Civil War Historical References (or other less well-known Spanish figures)
- Quieipo de Llano (8.112)
- Alejandro Lerroux Garcia (13.61)
- Indalecio Prieto Tuero (13.61)
- Valentin Gonzalez, "El Campesino" (18.36)
- Enrique Lister Forjan (18.37, 18.51, 31.163)
- Juan Modesto (18.37)
- Andrés Nin (18.152)
- Dolores Ibarruri, "La Pasionaria" (27.19-24, 27.46, 27.76, 33.13-25)
- Pablo Iglesias Posse (35.4)
- Buenaventura Durutti Dumange (35.4)
- Jose Miaja Menant (35.4)
Art References
Pop Culture References
- Greta Garbo (11.85-6)
- Jean Harlow (11.85-6)
- Jack Gilbert (11.86)
- Marx Brothers (18.39)