Ernest Hemingway y su visión literaria de las Brigadas Internacionales

Abstract

Hemingway's writings contributed to the enlistment of many American volunteers in the International Brigades. This fraticidal war encouraged his political commitment with the Spanish Republic and his works of fiction and war dispatches always presented a heroic image of those young soldiers, who compensated for their lack of means and military training with idealism and enthusiasm. His main characters, Robert Jordan, Philip Rawlings and Al Wagner are literary archetypes of those brigadists and hey represent the commitment with the Spanish cause, their frustations, idealism and courage. Hemingway in his writings always emphasized the human and individual aspects of these soldiers and he distinguished between those who fought for an ideal and those who did it for material or political reasons. Hemingway recognized that the most dangerous missions were entrusted to them, but he never avoided describing the murders and appalling atrocities committed during that war by political commissars even against their own brigadists.