Season 3, Episode 4: My New Favorite Hemingway Novel - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

TEACHING CONTENT PODCAST
"My New Favorite Hemingway Novel"
Season 3, Episode 4, May 22, 2024

SHOW NOTES

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My New Favorite Hemingway Novel:
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"

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Related anecdote: Reading "Farewell to Arms" in a park on the shore of Lake Geneva with my mother in 1973

50 years later: Teaching that same Hemingway novel to juniors at DJDS

Non-fans of Hemingway: J.B. Doze and Linda Kenepaske

Fan of "For Whom the Bell Tolls": a fellow teacher at DJDS (Brian Welling, who tells me it has been influential in his life and he has read it three times)

Other novels by others of my favorite authors: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Almanac of the Dead" and "Ceremony"; Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes" (first of many Hardy novels I enjoyed reading with Professor Peter Casagrande when I was 20 years old)

Related anecdote: When my older brother John presented on art conservation at DJDS and we met interesting people at the art/science teacher's dinner party

"Spoiler Alert"

One more note about Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" and reading it in 1984 with seniors at Kickapoo Nation School in Powhattan, Kansas

Note about frayed and unfinished plot threads in Marmon Silko's "Almanac of the Dead" as I finished reading it in Japan while teaching at Chubu University in 1991-92

Standard omniscient third-person narration plus flashbacks

Stream-of-consciousness third-person narrator omniscient mostly only about the protagonists thoughts/experiences

Jump-gap perspective switches in Beowulf and in Hemingway's tale

Spanish fascists versus revolutionary Republicans

Captain Mora and Lieutenant Berrendo

Everyone in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is speaking in Spanish and mostly about events they are living through in the Spanish Civil War

The use of three different pronouns in Robert Jordan's stream of consciousness thoughts: he, I, and you

Comparisons with "Aura" by Carlos Fuentes and "Niebla" by Miguel de Unamuno

Hemingway's story is sustained by the protagonist Robert Jordan's stream of consciousness

A unique manner of ending the novel

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