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
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his crat. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961
Biografie
Ernest Hemingway, geb. 1899 als Sohn eines Arztes in Illinois (USA), ging 1921 als Journalist nach Europa und in den Nahen Osten. 1954 erhielt er für sein schriftstellerisches Werk den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Danach verbrachte er fünf Jahre in Paris. 1961 schied er nach schwerer Krankheit freiwillig aus dem Leben.
