For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s protagonist, Robert Jordan, is an American academic volunteering with the International Brigades. His mission is to blow up a bridge as part of a planned advance by the Republicans. Robert Jordan, like Hemingway’s other protagonists such as Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises, is a broken character - as his mission draws closer, he faces his feelings of shame at his father's suicide and compares himself to his grandfather - himself a military man of some accomplishment.
Jordan's singleness of mind in the mission is challenged by several factors - he finds love in Maria, a young girl rescued from the abusive Fasists; the questioned competence of a band of guerillas he needs to accomplish his task as well as the faltering loyalty and commitment of Pablo, the once heroic leader of the band with a fast waning appetite for the struggle.
Mr. Hemingway's characters are as rich as they are real. Take for instance, Pilar, the maternal woman of Pablo, who still has an unwavering belief in the movement and takes up a leadership role of the band in lieu of the ambivalent Pablo.
The narration is first class. The result is a frank and poignant war novel that teaches us volumes about the human condition. A novel for every generation.
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