Title
Robert Jordan’s (and Ernest Hemingway’s) "True Book": Myths and Moral Quandaries in For Whom the Bell Tolls
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Examines Hemingway’s undermining of the Republic’s heroic image in his postwar novel, an image he had sought to preserve in his wartime journalism so as not to jeopardize the Loyalist cause. Cohen explores the narrative’s treatment of the Soviets’ repressive presence, Loyalist atrocities like the massacre in Pilar’s village, and Jordan’s moral quandaries in fulfilling his mission, concluding that Hemingway’s greater aim was to set the record straight regarding the moral ambiguities and dilemmas that surround any war.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
36
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2017
Pages
42-64
COinS
Citation
Cohen, Milton A. “Robert Jordan’s (and Ernest Hemingway’s) ‘True Book’: Myths and Moral Quandaries in For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Hemingway Review 36, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 42-64.