For Whom the Bell Tolls | Social Concerns
While reaction to For Whom the Bell Tolls in the highly charged political atmosphere of 1940 was sharply divided, and remains so to this day, one thing is clear: In this, his most ambitious novel, Hemingway paints his most complex canvas of the individual person's role in the welter of social and political concerns. Hemingway's politics of humanity rather than party managed to anger left, right, and middle. By and large, however, he remained true to his sense of the artist's vocation: Art must always tell the truth, art must never serve propagandistic ends. Although Hemingway, the...
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