The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, published in 1940, was a huge success. According to Carlos Baker, one of the most authoritative biographers of the writer, «this book still remains an unsurpassed masterpiece among all works (both artistic and non-artistic) dedicated to the Spanish tragedy of those years.»
This is a novel about true love and true courage. This is a story about a man who decided to sacrifice himself in order to save others. These are testimonies of a war in which corruption and brutality flourish. The bell that sounds for the main character of the novel — Robert Jordan — is a symbol of the fact that in the face of death, everyone is equal. And today Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls sounds as exciting and disturbing as it did fifty years ago. And therefore «never ask for whom the Bell tolls: it tolls for You.»
Performed by Veniamin Smekhov
The publication was carried out within the framework of an agreement with the Lethe Paulette Remarque Foundation with / on the Morbux Literary Agency and the Synopsis Literary Agency.
Copyright © 1940 by Ernest Hemingway
Copyright renewed © 1968 by Mary Hemingway
© Translated by I. Kalashnikov, N. Volzhin
© & ℗ SP Vorobiev V.A.
© & ℗ ID SOYUZ
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