I'm not saying Hemingway invented Spain, but his version of
the Spanish Civil War in FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS bears little
historical reference technologically or chronologically to
the events in Spain 1936-1939. They bear more on his own
World War I experiences and the technology of that much
earlier era. The Spanish Civil War was a prelude to WWII.
What grass roots movement there was was neither as
significant nor as primitive as Hemingway told it in that
book.
Patrick King
--- jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Jack Bludis
> <buildsnburns@...> wrote:
> >
>
> > Another piece that I think is right: Hemingway
was
> a
> > reporter in Spain during the civil war.
Right?
> Wrong? Shall
> > we vote? Can anyone verify?
> >
> He was. And he had lots of experience in Spain and
a
> deep
> understanding of the culture. And he liked Spain
the
> way it was (and
> is), so nothing he wrote, good or bad,
feels
> falsified or
> self-serving, even today. He may have been
a
> romantic, but he had
> great intelligence and lucidity as well.
Whether
> some of his novels
> succeed (I am thinking specifically of For Whom
the
> Bell Tolls) or
> endure is a different matter. But he didn't make
up
> a Spain out of
> whole cloth, far from it.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
>
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