Other Books Related to For Whom
the Bell Tolls
A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s other war
novel, about an American lieutenant in Italy during World War I. Hemingway also
published short stories about Nick Adams, also an ambulance corps member in
Italy during World War I and a fictionalized version of himself (including “Now
I Lay Me,” “A Way You’ll Never Be,” and “In Another Country”). Hemingway wrote
his only play, The
Fifth Column, while in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War:
like many of Hemingway’s other works of war literature, the play centers on a
male protagonist fighting against the forces of fascism (Madrid was surrounded
by four “columns” of Francoist forces, the fifth of which was comprised of
spies operating undercover in the city). Though Spanish literature about the
civil war was heavily censored by the Francoist regime, Camilo José Cela’s 1942
novel The Family
of Pascual Duarte (La Familia de Pascual Duarte)
addresses the nation’s social and political turmoil, and the Republican writer
Miguel Hernández’s poetry—especially those poems he wrote while imprisoned by
the fascists—speak to his experiences with poverty and injustice in a severely
fragmented country. British writer Wyndham Lewis’s The Revenge For Love (1937),
though not strictly a civil war novel, sharply criticized the rise of communism
in Spain before the war (Lewis aligned himself with the Nationalists over the
Republicans).
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