Hemingway And The Spanish Civil War: The Distant Sound Of Battle

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii The Distant Sound of Battle, December 1936 (Gilbert H. Muller)....Pages 1-27 Conspirators, January–February 1937 (Gilbert H. Muller)....Pages 29-50 Madrid, March–May 1937 (Gilbert H. Muller)....Pages 51-87 The Spanish Earth, June–August 1937 (Gilbert H. Muller)....Pages 89-130 The Fifth Column, August–December 1937 (Gilbert H. Muller)....Pages 131-154 The Time Now, the Place Spain, January–May 1938 (Gilbert H. Muller)....Pages 155-181 The Carnival of Treachery, June–November 1938 (Gilbert H. Muller)....Pages 183-207 No Man Is an Island, December 1938–December 1940 (Gilbert H. Muller)....Pages 209-237 Back Matter ....Pages 239-259