IDEOLOGY AND NARRATIVE IN HEMINGWAY’S WAR FICTION
IDEOLOGY AND NARRATIVE IN HEMINGWAY’S WAR FICTION

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the assumption that war has never been beautiful and that “everyone dies”, although memorable representations of it have tried to glorify it since time immemorial, one can underline the fact that, even from the very beginning, these war narratives have either served as mythical, supernatural interpretations of significant aspects of one particular culture or have attempted to tell, in more objective and more secular terms, the causes and effects of military confrontations. The present paper is devoted to Hemingway’s war fiction (both related to World War I and to the Spanish Civil War). It deals with the interplay between ideology (especially war discourse, both in literary traditions and in public speeches) and Hemingway’s fictional narrative itself.

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