--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> 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 TOLLS bears little historical reference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.
>
This is not the place to discuss the Spanish Civil War, but
Hemingway had first-hand experience of it. He was also
writing a novel, not a history of that war. And he had his
sympathies. In any case, he didn't lack knowledge.
Best,
mrt
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