Title
Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War or the Volatile Mixture of Politics and Art
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Focuses on Hemingway’s inability to historically render the Spanish Civil War in For Whom the Bell Tolls due to his apolitical nature, opting instead to invent his own imaginative version of both Spain and the war. Discusses Hemingway’s involvement as a war correspondent as well as his stringent belief that politics and art should not mix.
Published in
Rewriting the Good Fight: Critical Essays on the Literature of the Spanish Civil War
Date
1989
Pages
175-184
COinS
Citation
Josephs, Allen. “Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War or the Volatile Mixture of Politics and Art.” In Rewriting the Good Fight: Critical Essays on the Literature of the Spanish Civil War, edited by Frieda S. Brown, Malcolm Alan Compitello, Victor M. Howard, and Robert A. Martin, 175-84. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1989.