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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Posted on 11/8/25 at 8:46 am
Posted on 11/8/25 at 8:46 am
I hate to say that I have not read a lot of Hemingway. I acquired a bunch of old books that my mother had kept which had belong to my grandparents. These are mostly 30s-50s fiction and among them was 1940 printing of "For Whom the Bell Tolls." I'm about 3/4 through it and was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. The plot is not at all what I thought, I knew it was about fighting in Spain during their Civil War but it's really gets at some good points on the ideas of guerrillas, how idealism for ideology, mostly Marxism, plays out and the human dynamics involved in fighting. As a writer, "Papa Hemingway" seems to have been really as good as I have often heard him to be.
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Posted on 11/8/25 at 9:56 am to hansenthered1
I read it at the beginning of the year after getting back from a trip to Spain and didn't care for it. Thought it was pretty slow and was a bit thrown off with the characters speaking as if they were in a 1500s Shakespeare play when it was only the 1930s. The ending was pretty good, though. It was the only Hemingway book ive ever read and i came away disappointed considering the hype. May still try some of his other stuff one day.
Posted on 11/8/25 at 10:18 am to cfish140
I thought he set their language as old Castilian and was using the informal tense in a sort of literal translation. I don't mind it, it's not present in the Soliloquies where Jordon is speaking to himself. I've yet to finish it so glad to hear the ending is good.
Posted on 11/8/25 at 4:03 pm to hansenthered1
I wasn't a huge fan of this one, but A Farewell to Arms is excellent.
Posted on 11/8/25 at 4:17 pm to NorthSquatch
That's now on my list.
Posted on 11/9/25 at 9:04 am to hansenthered1
I have been sludging thru For Whom The Bell Tolls for a couple years. I'll stop and read something else, then pick it back up at times. I'm a little over halfway thru it right now. I am interested enough to see how it ends, but damn it drags on and on. Just blow the f'n bridge up already.
Posted on 11/9/25 at 4:06 pm to LSUballs
Didn’t like For Whom the Bell Tolls. Don’t think I actually finished it. I love The Sun Also Rises though. I’ve reread it several times.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 1:08 am to hansenthered1
It's on my list, I've got my copy, probably read it after the holidays.
Pro: Huge interest in the Spanish Civil War, having read several books on it.
Con: A Farewell to Arms was a hard slog, and I find Hemingway to be pretty dry sometimes.
Pro: Huge interest in the Spanish Civil War, having read several books on it.
Con: A Farewell to Arms was a hard slog, and I find Hemingway to be pretty dry sometimes.
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