- Title
- The Spanish Civil War and Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Author/Creator
- James A. Heffernan
- Publication Details
- Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II, pp.29-44
- Annotation
- Examines Hemingway's portrayal of guerrilla warfare in For Whom the Bell Tolls in contrast to a later comprehensive history of the war, which omits guerrillas as a significant factor in the conflict. Traces Hemingway's long experience in Spain, his writing about war, his involvement as a journalist covering the Civil War, the complications and moral quandaries that resulted in his alignment with the Loyalist, anti-Fascist cause, and the inner conflicts of the novel's central character, Robert Jordan. Considers the problems interpreting Hemingway's later statement, in the introduction to Men At War, that a fiction writer's "standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be."
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic Press; London
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015211982003691
Book chapter
The Spanish Civil War and Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II, pp.29-44
Bloomsbury Academic Press
2022
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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