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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 front lines, producing a deeply political body of work that illuminated the conflict and presaged the world war to come. In the end, his immersive journey into the turbulent world of the Spanish Civil War resulted in For Whom the Bell Tolls, a landmark in American political fiction. 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. On the eightieth anniversary of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gilbert H. Muller reconsiders Hemingway as an engaged artist, political actor, and visionary.
List of contents
1. The Distant Sound of Battle, December 1936.- 2. Conspirators, January-February 1937.- 3. Madrid, March-May 1937.- 4. The Spanish Earth, June-August 1937.- 5. The Fifth Column, August-December 1937.- 6. The Time Now, the Place Spain, January-May 1938.- 7. The Carnival of Treachery, June-November 1938.- 8. No Man is an Island, December 1938-December 1940.
About the author
Gilbert H. Muller is Emeritus Professor of English at the City University of New York, USA. His books include the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Grotesque; William Cullen Bryant: Author of America; and most recently, Abraham Lincoln and William Cullen Bryant: Their Civil War (Palgrave, 2017).
Summary
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 front lines, producing a deeply political body of work that illuminated the conflict and presaged the world war to come. In the end, his immersive journey into the turbulent world of the Spanish Civil War resulted in For Whom the Bell Tolls, a landmark in American political fiction. 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. On the eightieth anniversary of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gilbert H. Muller reconsiders Hemingway as an engaged artist, political actor, and visionary.
