Their recent memories of the civil war it fictionalizes. Commentaries on the novel both sang theīook's praises and raged against its insults, with many SpanishĬritics attempting to view the book with maximum objectivity despite Novel was freely discussed in numerous articles about Hemingway's Although For Whom the Bell Tolls was notĪpproved for publication in Spain until 1968,1 throughout the 1950s, the War, by the mid-1950s he had become a writer and visitor celebrated evenīy the Francoist press. The Spanish government's shift in attitudeĪnd policy benefited Hemingway a forbidden author at the end of the It seems self-evident that Hemingway's novel about the SpanishĬivil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls, would have a permanent place on theīut while this may have been true early on in the dictatorship, theġ950s brought many changes to Spanish government and society, includingĪ gradual relaxation of censorship practices and a general opening up toįoreign influences in the form of politics, entertainment, merchandise, List of forbidden authors that included Sartre, Camus, Descartes,ĭostoevsky, Tolstoi, Baroja, and Unamuno, among others (Villanueva 10). Language and behavior were far from in keeping with theĭictatorship's strict moral standards, and Hemingway, who hadĭefended the Republic with words and actions, could certainly beĬonsidered a threat to the postwar government. Hemingway's works (which had not been published in Spainīefore the Civil War) were likely to be suspect. Immorality and possible hostility to the Catholic Church or the Franco Were subject to government censorship their content reviewed both for Information available to Spanish citizens. Regime used this isolation to its advantage by controlling the Into a period of isolation imposed from both within and without. The consequences reached far beyond the realm of politics. WHEN FRANCO DECLARED HIS VICTORY over the Republican army in 1939, Telling picture of the novel's diverse and problematic reception.
Were first published in Spain-many critics commented on For Whom theīell Tolls in their articles on the author, and their remarks paint a
Until 1968, but starting in the 1950s-when other works by Hemingway
The novel was not published in the country Immediate success around the world, the same cannot be said for its This article examines how Spanish critics received For Whom theīell Tolls in the 1950s.
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