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- Rang parmi les ventes : #488867 dans Livres
- Publié le: 2016-07-14
- Langue d'origine:
Anglais - Nombre d'articles: 1
- Dimensions: 6.18" h x
1.18" l x
4.06" L,
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- Reliure: Relié
- 624 pages
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Par John P. Jones III
I recently re-read The Old Man and the Sea, and that proved to be the catalyst to re-read his masterpiece, which was the prime reason he won the Nobel Prize in 1954. He was a “man of action” who was “also” a writer. He actively sought, and eventually found the limelight, cultivating mentors like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. I first read this work in 1968, when I was obtaining some personal lessons in partisan warfare, which included the blowing up of bridges… but on the receiving end. I knew almost nothing about the Spanish Civil War, but recall a governmental form that I had to sign, indicating I was not a member of a whole bunch of possibly subversive organizations, including the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, whose last known member, Delmer Berg, died last month, at the age of 100.Hemingway’s novel takes place over four days, in late May, 1937, in central Spain, in the mountains near Segovia, where it can still snow, and does. The Republican forces are attempting an offensive against the fascist forces of Francisco Franco. Robert Jordan, an American, is a Spanish professor from the University of Montana, with a long-term interest in Spain, nurtured by extensive travel there. In summer jobs in construction and mining, he learned the art of dynamiting. As other Americans did, with dollops of idealism, Jordan volunteered to fight for the Republicans. The commanding general for this particular offensive, Golz, has ordered Jordan to go behind fascist lines, link with a group of partisans, and blow up a bridge in order to prevent reinforcements from joining the attacked fascist forces.I thoroughly enjoyed the structure of the novel, and the manner in which Hemingway reveals information. For example, the paragraph immediately above is pieced together from information gradually revealed in the course of the narrative. Hemingway had gained penetrating insights into a range of people. There is excellent character development, often via the technique of flashbacks. Anselmo is 68, tough, who Jordan knows can still outwalk him in the mountains. Pablo and his wife, Pilar, are two of the most complex characters. The official diagnosis of PTSD did not exist during the Spanish Civil War, yet Pablo clearly had it. In one of the most searing portions of the novel, via a flashback, Hemingway describes when Pablo was fearless and ruthless. He led his forces in seizing a village under fascist control, executes the civil guard who have surrendered, and then forces “the fascist” members of the village to run a gauntlet, where they are flayed. It further degenerates into a drunken orgy of killing. And then Pablo says: if you think that was bad, you should have seen what happened when the fascists seized the village back three days thereafter. Pablo says: “If you have not seen the day of revolution in a small town where all know all in the town and always have known all, you have seen nothing.” It immediately brought to mind Salvador Dali’s “Soft Construction in Boiled Beans: Premonitions of the Spanish Civil War.”The unique character of Spain appears in the bullfight, the men who prove their manhood thusly, and the women who love them. Pablo was once a bullfighter, and Pilar loved the ritual, and cared for his wounds, all related via flashbacks. Hemingway also relates how the pre-Christian religion and rituals still impacted the fighting during the civil war. Small unit tactics and the hardware of war, coupled with the terrain, is depicted with care and accuracy. Who enjoys the killing, and who does it “as a job”? This was one of the questions raised in the movie (Hearts and Minds - Criterion Collection [Import USA Zone 1]) about a latter war, and is a recurring them in this novel. The military leadership? Hemingway has Jordan say: There are no Grants, Shermans or Stonewall Jacksons, only McClellans. And the civilian leadership? Jordan has a brief interlude away from the war at the Gaylord Hotel in Madrid where the leadership congregated. He notes the cowards have fled to Valencia, and in Barcelona there are only political clowns acting out revolution. “He believed in the Republic as a form of government but the Republic would have to get rid of all of that bunch of horse thieves that brought it to the pass it was in when the rebellion started. Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?”Love, life, commitment. It is there too, in Jordan’s relationship with Maria, whose parents had been executed by the fascists, and she had her head shaved and was repeatedly raped. With death all around them, there love-making is intense, and it is Pilar who notes that it is an old gypsy belief that one has three opportunities in life to have love-making that is so intense that it can move the earth. Maria and Jordan have had that, and Pilar, now older and ugly, claims to have had it twice in her life. Is moving the earth in our past, or still to come, as it were?There is much, much more, including the dramatic tension involved in Jordan sending a message to Golz about the upcoming offensive. Will it get there in time? Alas, how many interfere with the delivery of critical intelligence to the decision makers? And there is Jordan’s relationship with his grandfather, who fought in the American Civil War, and taught him about life, as well as his own father, who committed suicide, a cowardly act the author claims – and one must reflect on Hemingway’s own suicide a few years thereafter.Overall, a beautifully written complex novel that incisively looks at war, and the range of human behavior surrounding it, as well as love, and its intense moments. 5-stars, plus.
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Par photovor
Très bon roman, certains passages sont surprenants car E.H. transcrit le parler espagnol en anglais. Quelques passages ressemblent à des litanies ... mais c'est le style de l'auteur. Les description sont toujours précises et ciselées et le caractère espagnol est bien rendu . Très intéressant pour les lecteurs anglophiles.
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Par Ostrogothe
Ce livre est magnifique, je l'ai lu avec grand plaisir et intérêt. J'avais essayé en français mais il m'est tombé des mains. J'ai tenté l'aventure en anglais, et là... miracle!En plus cette édition est jolie comme tout, agréable à tenir et à trimballer partout.Je conseille également de regarder le DVD avec Ingrid Bergman Pour qui sonne le glas
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