Klokkene ringer for deg. B 1

For Whom the Bell Tolls #1

by Ernest Hemingway, Paul René Gauguin (Translator)

Den store romanen om den spanske borgerkrigen fra mesteren Ernest Hemingway

Da Ernest Hemingway begynte å skrive "Klokkene ringer for deg" under et opphold på Cuba i 1939, lå det nesten 20 års erfaringer og opplevelser fra Spania til grunn for arbeidet. Han hadde vært krigskorrespondent og opplevd borgerkrigens ødeleggelser, men han elsket like fullt landet og folket, snakket spansk nesten som en innfødt, og han var lidenskapelig opptatt av tyrefekting.

Handlingen i romanen foregår fra lørdag til tirsdag, innenfor rammen av en fjellhule der både geriljasoldater og sivile holder til. Robert Jordan er en ung amerikansk geriljaleder som har fått i oppdrag å sprenge en bro, et strategisk knutepunkt som har stor betydning for republikanernes offensiv. Jordan kommer i kontakt med Pablos bande, blant dem Pablo selv, vegviseren Anselmo og Pablos kvinne Pilar. Og ikke minst møter han den store kjærligheten; den 19 år gamle Maria.

Fire dager av den spanske borgerkrigen er gjennom Ernest Hemingways mesterlige penn blitt til en evig og allmenngyldig fortelling om menneskers skjebne i krig og kjærlighet.

239 pages, Hardcover

First published October 21, 1940

About the author

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.