For Whom the Bell Tolls New York Philharmonic premieres emotionally charged Berceuse for Dresden ON NOVEMBER 17, the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel went to Dresden, Germany, to give the world premiere of the English composer Colin Matthews' Berceuse for Dresden...

SUSAN EDELMAN The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-07-1993 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS By SUSAN EDELMAN Date: 10-07-1993, Thursday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early Column: CONSUMER WATCH ...

It was not your typical V.F.W. reunion. First off, most of the war vets were Communists, either current or former, possibly Anarchists. (At least one could quote Bakunin.) Also, most of them had been spied on at some point by the F.B.I. Welcome to the...

Critical attention to language in For Whom the Bell Tolls usually focuses on the Spanish quality of the dialogue. Written in English, the novel imitates the vocabulary and sentence structure of Spanish, creating a highly stylized prose. Edward Fenimore has commented on the "Elizabethan" tone of the language, and concludes that it contributes to the epic quality of the work. In a similar vein, Earl Rovit maintains that the language distances the reader from the novel, and that this distance add...

Hemingway at his best is not a maker of metaphors. He resists the notion that anything can overtly be compared to anything else. While his images almost always function on two levels—the literal and the figurative—Hemingway refuses to help his reader bridge the gap between the two realms by in any way suggesting that his language might be two-dimensional. The pervasive sense that an overwhelming symbolic logic lurks just beneath the level of the literal is precisely the sense of the uncanny wh...