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Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War

The Distant Sound of Battle

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Authors:
  1. Gilbert H. Muller

    1. City University of New York, New York, USA

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  • Offers a fresh portrait of Ernest Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War

  • Reconsiders Hemingway as a deeply political writer and thinker

  • Illuminates the historical and political context that led to the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Distant Sound of Battle, December 1936

    • Gilbert H. Muller
    Pages 1-27

  3. Conspirators, January–February 1937

    • Gilbert H. Muller
    Pages 29-50

  4. Madrid, March–May 1937

    • Gilbert H. Muller
    Pages 51-87

  5. The Spanish Earth, June–August 1937

    • Gilbert H. Muller
    Pages 89-130

  6. The Fifth Column, August–December 1937

    • Gilbert H. Muller
    Pages 131-154

  7. The Time Now, the Place Spain, January–May 1938

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    Pages 155-181

  8. The Carnival of Treachery, June–November 1938

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    Pages 183-207

  9. No Man Is an Island, December 1938–December 1940

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    Pages 209-237

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 239-259
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About this book

During the 1930s, no event was more absorbing or galvanizing to Ernest Hemingway than the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway was passionately devoted to the cause of the democratically elected Spanish Republic and he spent much of the war reporting from its front lines, producing a deeply political body of work that illuminated the conflict and presaged the world war to come. In the end, his immersive journey into the turbulent world of the Spanish Civil War resulted in For Whom the Bell Tolls, a landmark in American political fiction. This book offers a fresh account of Hemingway’s adventures in Spain during the Civil War, stressing his embrace of radical political action and discourse in defense of the Republic against the forces of Fascism. On the eightieth anniversary of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gilbert H. Muller reconsiders Hemingway as an engaged artist, political actor, and visionary. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • City University of New York, New York, USA

    Gilbert H. Muller

About the author

Gilbert H. Muller is Emeritus Professor of English at the City University of New York, USA. His books include the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Grotesque; William Cullen Bryant: Author of America; and most recently, Abraham Lincoln and William Cullen Bryant: Their Civil War (Palgrave, 2017).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War

  • Book Subtitle: The Distant Sound of Battle

  • Authors: Gilbert H. Muller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28124-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28123-6Published: 13 November 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28126-7Published: 13 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28124-3Published: 01 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 259

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Modern Europe, Literary History, Political History

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