Pour qui sonne le glas

by Ernest Hemingway

192 pages, Hardcover

Published April 15, 2026

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.

Reviews

[Lucas]

"We cannot destroy them. But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it"

Weird read in the big 2026, when far right ideology is on the rise all over the world. It's funny because I feel like Hemingway is often associated with macho manly man esthetic, which is now closely tied to the manosphere... While being resolutely anti-facist. But anyway I digress a little

Go figure why a couple french dudes decided to adapt a novel about an american going to spain during the civil war. But hey, it's a pretty good book ! The art is kind of surprising for a Hemingway adaptation, but it really works and I'm definitely looking forward to the artists next works. It does loose some of the grit of the original novel I feel, with everything looking so soft and colorful, but the more gruesome passages hit even harder.

[Sylvaine Yvenou]

1966, j'ai 14 ans et je découvre le roman d'Hemingway Pour qui sonne le glas. Je me souviens encore du cataclysme ressenti ...
2026 je découvre l'album graphique de JP Morvan et de Pierre Dawance et tout me "pète à la gueule"...
Que vous dire de cet album graphique? que c' est une réussite, que l'âme d' Hémingway est là palpable, que Roberto et Maria sont inoubliables, que la Guerre d'Espagne a marqué les générations...
Ceci précisé j'ai tout retrouvé ...
Les dessins de Pierre Dawance sont certes très épurés mais en symbiose totale avec les acteurs , leurs passés, leurs avenirs incertains, leurs sentiments , leurs peurs et leurs amours..
Les mots choisis par JP Morvan collent à la perfection et font mouche ..
Vous aurez compris que la lecture de cet album m'a remué les tripes . Et en ces temps mouvementés toute piqûre de rappel quant à l'absurdité des hommes est bonne à prendre.

un grand merci aux éditions Sarbacane et à Babelio pour ce partage à l'occasion de la dernière masse critique graphique.

[Vagabondageautourdesoi]

Publié en 1940, Pour qui sonne le glas est l'un des romans majeurs d'Ernest Hemingway. Inspiré de son expérience de la guerre d'Espagne, il raconte la mission périlleuse de Robert Jordan, engagé auprès des républicains contre les troupes franquistes.
Adapté pour la première fois en roman graphique par Jean-David Morvan, l'ouvrage relève le défi de condenser plus de cinq cents pages sans trahir l'esprit du texte.
Grâce à un dessin expressif et à une palette de couleurs évocatrice, cette version restitue la dimension humaine, politique et tragique du roman.
Une belle porte d'entrée vers un classique de la littérature mondiale.
Chronique entière et illustrée :
https://vagabondageautourdesoi.com/20...