Hemingway's
classic novel of the Spanish Civil War.
In 1937
Ernest Hemingway
traveled to Spain to cover the civil war; three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight,"
For Whom the Bell Tolls
. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, It tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an Ideal. Surpassing his achievement in
The Sun Also Rises
and
A Farewell to Arms
,
Hemingway
creates a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise.
"
If the function of a writer is to reveal reality, "
Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript
, "no one ever so completely performed it. "For Whom the Bell Tolls stands as one of the best war novels of all time
",
Ernest Hemingway
did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the
Nobel Prize for literature
in 1954.
Hemingway
wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of
The Sun Also Rises
and
A Farewell to Arms
immediately established
Ernest Hemingway
as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame.
Hemingway
was an aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel
For Whom the Bell Tolls,
and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella
The Old Man and the Sea
won the
Pulitzer Prize
in 1953. He died in 1961.
Campbell Scott
directed the film
Off The Map,
and received the best actor award from the
National Board of Review
for his performance in
Roger Dodger.
His other films include
The Secret Lives of Dentists, The Dying Gaul, Mrs. Parker
and the
Vicious Circle
and
Big Night
, which he also co-directed.
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