I hadn’t read this one before and I once read the opening chapter. It’s among the most Hemingway of the Hemingway, and is clearly a much more mature work than either A Farewell to Arms or The Sun Also Rises, but is maybe more measured than those are. We meet Robert Jordan, an American adjunct professor who has recently joined the anti-Fascist movement in Spain. He’s not exactly a Republican, and even seems to not entire understand what a Republican is, almost equivocating between the […]