Ernest Hemingway: For whom the Bell Tolls, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms comes perhaps his finest novel, a passionate evocation of the pride and the tragedy of the Civil War that tore Spain apart.

Beschreibung

Der populärste Roman im Werk von Hemingway schildert vier Tage im Leben des Amerikaners Robert Jordan. Aus Liebe zu Spanien kämpft er als Freiwilliger im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg an der Seite der Republikaner gegen die faschistischen Putschisten. Drei Tage und drei Nächte verbringt er in der Höhle, in der die Guerillakämpfer ihr Quartier aufgeschlagen haben. Dort begegnet er Maria, einem jungen Mädchen, dessen Eltern im Bürgerkrieg ermordet wurden. Die Liebe zu Robert Jordan läßt sie die Schrecken der Vergangenheit vergessen. Für den Amerikaner bedeutet die Bindung an Maria die Überwindung seiner Einsamkeit. Jordan bleibt in den Bergen, um den Rückzug der Partisanen zu decken. Er weiß, daß er sterben wird. High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dyamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. Like many of his novels adapted into a major Hollywood film, For Whom the bell Tolls is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century by one of the greatest American writers.

Rezension

"One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce" Anthony Burgess Observer

Klappentext

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge.

Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer on the republican side of the Spanish Civil War, has been sent to handle the dynamiting.

There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. It is in these desperate days that his fate will be set.