- Title
- A Clash of Certainties, Old and New: For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Inner War of Ernest Hemingway
- Author/Creator
- Michael K. Solow
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.29(1), pp.103-122
- Annotation
- Argues that the novel s complex representation of war as abhorrent yet sometimes justified reflects Hemingway s conflicted view. Asserts that while Hemingway s play, The Fifth Column, reveals his ideological shift from apolitical isolationism to support for the Spanish Loyalists, it also marks a stagnancy in the author s artistic development. Reads Night Before Battle as Hemingway s return to his pacifist mentality a year later. Interprets Pilar s story of the Loyalist movement s violent beginning and Jordan s poignant death scene in For Whom the Bell Tolls as a unification of these paradoxical political positions.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015130926603691
Journal article
A Clash of Certainties, Old and New: For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Inner War of Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway Review, Vol.29(1), pp.103-122
10/01/2009
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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