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For Whom the Bull Tolls
- Animats 7y agoOh, Hemingway. He seems to attract obsessives. Key Hemingway fact: his contribution to the French Resistance was to "liberate" the bar of the Ritz Hotel.[1] Just hours ahead of Allied tanks entering Paris, and after the Germans had bailed. He was a pretend hero, not a real one. [1] https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Liberating-France-Hemingway-s-way-Following-2731590.php https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Liberating-France-Hemi...
- akiselev 7y agoYeah... I think that just reinforces the hero image in a perverse way. When I was in high school, Hemingway was just another boring Americana fiction writer that you had to slog through along with Steinbeck, Irving, and Faulkner. I didn't know he was in Paris during the counteroffensive and the fall of the Military Administration, that's awesome!
- correct_horse 7y agoWikipedia says On August 25, he was present at the liberation of Paris as a journalist; contrary to the Hemingway legend, he was not the first into the city, nor did he liberate the Ritz. Wikipedia cites Hemingway: A biography by Jeffrey Meyers
- smarri 7y agoI'm currently re-reading For Whom The Bell Tolls. It's important to strip away the legend surrounding the author and appreciate the writing itself, and it's clear Hemmingway is a great writer.