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Por Quién Doblan Las Campanas / El Viejo Y El Mar
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374 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1986
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Ernest Hemingway
2,247 books32.5k followersErnest 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.
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.
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November 2, 2020
Es una excelente novela de Ernest Hemingway... En donde muestra su estilo que no deja ver donde termina la historia real y comienza la obra del escritor. La novela debe su nombre a un aparte escrito por John Donne el cual Hemingway admiraba; cuenta la historia de una operación para volar un puente en Sevilla que evitará el avance de los Fascistas en contra de la República durante la guerra civil española, en donde Hemingway fue corresponsal. De resaltar la impresionante narrativa y descripción de gran calidad y cantidad de detalles que maneja y da, así como también las historias que describen los personajes... -Incluida una gran historia de amor- con las que intenta mostrar diversas facetas y sentimientos humanos, tanto individualmente como en sociedad (política, ideología, fanatismo, la guerra, los abusos, la muerte, religión, amistad, el compañerismo, el amor, la costumbre, el suicidio entre otros). Hay una película basada en el libro, además de canciones y alusiones en video juego y series, como la canción de Metallica. :)
January 24, 2019
Relato de fácil lectura, aunque algunos capítulos son muy crudos.
Historias de seres humanos corrientes que buscan la libertad de su pueblo. Encontramos hechos históricos que tuvieron lugar en la década del ‘30 entre fascistas, republicanos, comunistas.
De manera hermosa muestra la importancia de la vida, del amor, de la libertad, de la solidaridad, del trabajo en equipo.
El nombre del título se explica así: somos parte de un “ser colectivo” y cualquier pérdida hace que se desmorone ese ser.
Historias de seres humanos corrientes que buscan la libertad de su pueblo. Encontramos hechos históricos que tuvieron lugar en la década del ‘30 entre fascistas, republicanos, comunistas.
De manera hermosa muestra la importancia de la vida, del amor, de la libertad, de la solidaridad, del trabajo en equipo.
El nombre del título se explica así: somos parte de un “ser colectivo” y cualquier pérdida hace que se desmorone ese ser.
August 2, 2024
Tenía que leer este libro de Hemingway, muy crudo, pero la manera que escribe Hemingway wow, creo que me deprimió leer este libro por la manera en la que me hizo sentir Hemingway.
Le pongo 4 estrellas porque realmente este libro no fue fácil de leer, no me motivaba no me atrapaba como otros. Pero vale la pena leerlo si tienes interés en el autor y en la historia.
Le pongo 4 estrellas porque realmente este libro no fue fácil de leer, no me motivaba no me atrapaba como otros. Pero vale la pena leerlo si tienes interés en el autor y en la historia.
February 18, 2025
4.5 Una novela que se va cocinando poco a poco, y que tiene grandes momentos y un uso muy convincente del diálogo. Quizá sea por leer tanta novela moderna sin gas en la trama, pero da gusto leer obras clásicas en las que el argumento se va cocinando poco a poco y los personajes se van mostrando sutilmente.
August 13, 2019
Me gustó este libro por las descripciones de los personajes y las relaciones entre ellos. También disfrutaba el suspenso corriendo por casi cada capítulo. Me sentía como si fuera en la cordillera con el protagonista y su banda.
August 9, 2011
¿Qué puede decirse de Hemingway?
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