Title
For Whom the Bell Tolls as Contemporary History
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Situates the novel within its historical, military, and political contexts, explicating Hemingway’s honest criticism of communism and major political figures from both sides. Focusing his attention on chapters eighteen and forty-two, Meyers argues that the novel stands as an explanation of the complexities surrounding the Loyalist defeat and as such is the “greatest political novel in American literature.”
Published in
The Spanish Civil War in Literature
Date
1990
Pages
85-107
COinS
Citation
Meyers, Jeffrey. “For Whom the Bell Tolls as Contemporary History.” In The Spanish Civil War in Literature, edited by Janet Pérez and Wendell Aycock, 85-107. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1990.