Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War The Distant Sound of Battle
During the 1930s, no event was more absorbing or galvanizing to Ernest Hemingway than the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway was passionately devoted to the cause of the democratically elected Spanish Republic and he spent much of the war reporting from its fro
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Gilbert H. Muller
Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War
Gilbert H. Muller
Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War The Distant Sound of Battle
Gilbert H. Muller City University of New York New York, NY, USA
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Preface
The Spanish Civil War was, as Hugh Thomas observes, “a most passionate war,” and no American writer was more devoted to the democratically elected Second Republic than Ernest Hemingway.1 This book offers a fresh account of Hemingway’s adventures in Spain during the Civil War, stressing his embrace of radical political action and discourse in defense of the Republic against the forces of Fascism. Virtually all of Hemingway’s writing and political activities during the period deal with this polarized moment in Spain’s history. In the end, his immersive journey into the turbulent world of the Spanish Civil War enabled him to compose For Whom the Bell Tolls, a landmark in American political fiction. Hemingway was a unique witness to cataclysmic events and a writer unusually adept at capturing in fiction and other modes of literary expression the complexities of world history. During the 1930s, he was never apolitical as some critics and biographers contend; in fact, he was a deep reader of history and an astute observer of the political scene who marched to his own drummer. An anarchist or liber
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