The command calls the bell e Hemingue. Hemingway "The command calls the bell

ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

There is no man that would be in itself as an island; Every living - part of the continent; And if the sea is mocking the cliff, will not be the least Europe, smaller - on a stone rock, on the estate of friends, on your own home. The death of every person diminishes me, for I am one with all mankind. Therefore, never send to find out, the bell calls, it calls and for you.

Chapter first

Launching the chin in folded hands, he lay on the Ustlyavy earth with a soft forest carpet from the drier needles, and high over his head the wind swayed the tops of the pine. Where he lay, the slope was gentle, but then he was drunk down cool, and it was visible how the black tape of the bituminous road is wound on the gorge. Ratchwork ran along the road, and at the far end gorge on her shore a sawmill was seen. Water, overflowing through the dam, seemed white on the scorching summertime sun.

- This is a sawmill? - he asked.

- I do not remember her.

- She was built after you were here. Old sawmill on, much lower in the gorge.

He spread a photocopy of the army card on Earth and began to carefully study it. The old man looked his shoulder. It was a low growth of a detached old man in a black peasant shirt, gray pants from a cooler of a coarse canvas and worn by feeling on a rope sole. He has not yet risen after a steep rise and leaned with his hand on one of the two heavy barking bags that they dragged with them.

- So, the bridge is not visible from here.

"No," the old man replied. - This is a smooth part of the gorge, here a course of slow. At the bottom, where the road disappears behind the trees, it immediately breaks down and the narrow neck is obtained ...

- I remember.

- Through this neck and throw a bridge.

- Where are their posts?

- One there, the sawmill that you see.

The young man who studied the terrain pulled out the folding binoculars from the pocket of the flannel shirt, the lenses of the lenses with a handkerchief, twisted the eyepieces so that the outlines of the sawmill became clear, and began to look at the wooden bench next to the door, a huge bunch of sawdust, prayed behind a canopy, under which stood Circular saw, and part of the gutter, along which the logs are descended from the mountain, on the other side. Missed the water seemed smooth and calm, but where, overflowing through the dam, she fell down the waterfall down, twisted by the Burunas, the vortex splashes were raised, which the wind spread.

- There are no clocks.

"Smoke from the pipe goes," said the old man. - And the linen on the rope is hung.

- I see this, but the sentry is not.

"Maybe he hides in the shade," the old man suggested. - It's hot there. Probably went to the shadow at the end that we are not visible.

- Maybe. Where is the next post?

- Behind the bridge. In the guardhouse of the road caretaker, it is kilometers in five from the upper end of the gorge.

- How many people are here? - Young pointed to the sawmill.

- Man four soldiers and corporal.

- And there, below?

- There's more. I will find out.

- And at the bridge?

- There are always two: one with each end.

"We will need people," said young. - How much can you bring?

"I can bring as much as you need," the old man replied. - Here, in the mountains, now there are many people.

- How much much?

- More than a hundred. But they are divided into small detachments. How much will you need?

"I'll tell you when we look at the bridge."

- Do you want to examine him right now?

- Not. Now we will go there where you can hide an explosive until the pore. I want it to be covered very reliable, but if possible, no further than half an hour walk from the bridge.

"It is not difficult," said the old man. - From there, where we go, the road to the bridge will go under the slope. But to get there, you will have to run. You are hungry?

"Yes," answered a young man. - But we will be then. What's your name? I forgot. - He seemed a bad sign that he forgot the name of the old man.

"Anselmo," the old man replied. - My name is Anselmo, I'm from Barco de Avila. Let's help you with a bag.

A young man, tall and thin, with the woven sun of Rusia hair and a weathered tanned face, in the flannel shirt, peasant pants and feeling on the rope sole, leaned, made his hand under the leather bag and wrapped the severity on the shoulder. Then he glanced his other hand under another strap and dismissed a bag on his back. Cheating from sweat shirt under the bag has not yet dried.

"Nothing, I will cope," he said. - Where to go?

"Up," answered Anselmo.

Flexing under the weight of the bags, the fun, they climbed up the slope of the peeling pine forest. The young man did not distinguish any trail under his feet, but they confidently advanced everything above, the rich slope, then crossed a small stream, and the old man went to go ahead along his rocky bed. The lifting was becoming steeper and more difficult until they got to the place where the stream, passing through the smooth granite ledging over them, broke down; At the foot of the ledger, the old man stopped and waited for a young.

- Well, how are you?

"OK," answered young. He expired later, and the muscles on the hips twitched after a steep rise.

- Wait here. I will go ahead and warn them. You do not want to scream a bullet with such a cargo on the back.

"It's terrible to think, even a joke," said young. - It is far?

- No, very close. What's your name?

"Roberto," answered young. He took off the bag and gently lowered it to the ground between the two boulders at the stream.

- Well, wait here, Roberto, I will come back for you.

"Good," said the young man. "Are you going to descend to the bridge on this road?"

- Not. When we go to the bridge, it will be another road. In short and easier.

- Only this material can not be stored far from the bridge.

- You will see. Do not like the place - we will find another.

"Okay, let's see," said young.

Sitting near the bags, he watched the old man climbs the ledge. It seemed that he did it without difficulty, and by how he, without looking, found a support for his hands, one could guess that this path he had done more than once. Nevertheless, whoever was there, at the top, these people carefully took care not to leave any traces.

The young man, whose name was Robert Jordan, was terribly hungry and concerned. He was often hungry, but the alarms did not usually experienced, because it did not attach any importance to what would happen to him, and he knew how easily in this country to move in the rear of the enemy. Move behind the front line was as easy as cross it if you have a good conductor. Thoughts about what will happen if you are caught, only complicated the case; They, and even the need to decide who can be trusted. People with whom you work, you need to either trust completely or not trust at all, and the decision had to take it myself. Now he did not worry about anything about his friend. But there was something else.

This Anselmo was a good conductor and walked perfectly in the mountains. Robert Jordan himself was straight enough, but, following him all day - they came out before dawn, "she made sure that the old man was able to go to death. While Robert Jordan trusted this man, Anselmo, in everything, with the exception of his judgments. True, so far he has not had the opportunity to check the validity of these judgments, and the responsibility for making decisions still lay on it itself. No, because of Anselmo, he was not worried, and the explosion of the bridge was not more difficult for the task than many others. He could blow up any bridge, and had already exploded them a lot of different sizes and structures. Explosives and equipment in two bags was enough to guarantee to blow up and this bridge, even if he is twice as much as Anselmo says, what he himself is remembered at the time when he passed him along the way in La Granchu in 1933, and He described his Golz in the evening in the room on the top floor of the house in the commigion of the Escorial.

Hemingway "The Kom calls the bell"
Hemingway Roman is one of the few in the history of world literature of books, so inextricably merged with his name, more precisely - with the epigraph, where it is taken from this name. The phrase itself, borrowed from the epigraph and quickly becoming a saying in different languages \u200b\u200b(including in Russian), belongs to the well-known English poet of the XVII century John Donna, here is his pre-degree:
There is no man who would be like an island, in itself every person eating a part of the mainland, part of the sushi, and if the wave hesitates the coastal rock in the sea, the europe will become less, and also, if it sees the edge of the cape or destroy your castle or your friend, death Everyone is diminishing me, for me, for me one with all humanity, and therefore never ask, the bell calls, he calls for you.
John Donn.
This is a novel about the tragedy of the civil war. Of any civil war - no matter where and when it happened, for it is always the greatest tragedy of people, families, peoples, countries. In Hemingway, the action takes place in Spain in 1937 (the Roman himself was written in 1940 - on hot footprints). But such civil wars happened in world history more than once, at different times and in different countries - in ancient Rome, USA, Russia, Mexico, China, Kampuchea, Afghanistan. Yes, you never know where else? Everywhere, and always she is one person - with the inhuman cruelty, the crossed by the lives and the fate of thousands and millions of people.
And of course, this novel, like many other works of a great American writer, about love, about great love, that love, which at all times turned out to be stronger than any of the war, and therefore, and stronger death. To write a book of such a stunning strength, it was necessary to see it myself, survive and skip through my heart. As the Military Correspondent Hemingway really passed through all this hell. In his eyes, due to the ridiculous accident, more precisely, due to the inconsistency of the actions and orders of commanders and commissioners, representatives of different political parties - the entire squad, with whom he stared for many months on the spillings of the war. This case forever turned his soul - the writer became another person.
The plot of the novel is simple. An unspecified fleeting love ("Three nights and three incomplete days") of the American internationalist, a dynamore-dynamor of Robert Jordan and the fragile Spanish girl of Mary - almost a child. Shortly before the random and fateful meeting that turned the life of both, and the detachment of fascist punishers began to be brutally on her, who were shot before her eyes and mother. The action takes place in the Mountain Partisan detachment, where Robert is aimed with the task of blew up a strategically important bridge.
Love broke out instantly as soon as their views met. Hemingway masterfully as soon as he knew only one, describes all the stages of its development - from the first hopes to the last tragic farewell:
And he began to think about the girl Mary, who has skin, and hair, and eyes of the same golden-chestnut shade, only the hair is slightly darling, but they will seem lighter when the skin is stronger in the sun, its smooth skin, whose smooth skin As if shifting through the pale-golden top cover. Probably, her skin is very smooth and the whole body is smooth, and the movements are awkward, as if there is something in her or with her that it confuses, and it seems to her that it is all visible to everyone, although in fact it is not visible It is only her thoughts. And she blushed when he looked at her; So she sat, clasping his knees with his hands, shirt gates open, and breasts twit, pulling her gray cloth, and when he thought about her, he squeezed his throat and became difficult to walk ...
The girl herself came to him by the same night - without coercion he climbed into a sleeping bag, in which he spent the night outdoors. The love of men and women, in the morning did not suspect each other's existence, broke out as natural and bright as shone at the night sky:
- I love you. I love you so much. Put me a hand on my head, "she said, still hiding her face in the pillow. He put her hand on his head and stroked, and suddenly she raised her face with a pillow and firmly pressed to him, and now her face was next to his face, and he hugged her, and she cried. He kept her firmly and carefully, feeling the entire length of her young body, and stroked her on his head, and kissed the salty moisture on her eyes, and when she sobbed, he felt how to shuddered her little round chest under his shirt. "..."
They lay nearby, and everything that was protected is now left without protection. Where there used to be a rough fabric, everything became smooth-wonderful smoothness, and rounded, and flashed, and shuddered, and stretched, long and light, warm and cool, cool outside and warm inside, and fastened firmly, and stole, and tomilously pain, And gave the joy, miserable, young and loving, and now everything was already warm and smooth and full of tight, acute postal melancholy ...
In the description of the love of Hemingway, it reaches truly cosmic heights, because it describes it as truly, the cosmic feeling, as the greatest gift and the greatest happiness given to man by mother-nature:
Then there was a smell of a mescular heather, and the strokes of the stems under her head, and bright sun glare on her closed eyelids, and it seemed that he would remember the bending of her neck for his whole life, when she lay, thumping her head in heather, and her a little bit The cross lips, and trembling eyelashes on the eyelids, tightly closed, not to see the sun and see nothing, and the world for her was red, orange, golden yellow from the sun, penetrating through closed eyelids, and the same color was all - fullness , possession, joy, is all the same color, all in the same bright blindness. And for him there was a path in the dark, who led anywhere, and just nowhere, and again, and again, and again, and again, the elbows are indulge in the ground, and again nowhere, and irrelevant, hopelessly, forever nowhere, and more no strength, and again nowhere, and unbearable, and also, and again, and again, and suddenly in an unexpected, in the burning, in the latter, all the darkness scattered and time froze, and only two people existed in a fixed time And the Earth swung under them and swam.
Love Robert and Mary - the main theme of the novel - unfolds against the background of a ruthless and dangerous war, more precisely - people drawn into her bloody whirlpool. The accurate and colorful smears of the artist Hemingway recreates the whole gallery of folk heroes - from illiterate and wild partisans-patriots to the leaders of the Spanish Republic. The horrors of the Civil War are drawn as it were from the point of view of the journalist-chronicle fixing the frequency and terrible stories involved in the events that took place. But it was from such an impassive naturalism in the body that goosebumps run. Indeline, whether it is about how the Peasons-Republicans are clogged by the sets and alive discharge from the cliff of their neighbors-fascists, or about how else and at another time, the fascists cut off their heads to the killed Republicans.
The whole Roman Hemingway is permeated from the beginning to the end. He ends the death of the main character. With a broken foot and absolutely non-transportable in hard mountain conditions, Robert Jordan after fulfilling its main task - a successful bridge explosion - forced to stay on the mountain path to cover the retreat of the partisan detachment, save the beloved and the price of your own life to stop fascist punishers. Hemingway does not draw the death of the American Internationalist Hamingway, it is inexorable approaching, but it remains as if behind the scenes, although from the very first pages of the novel vitals above the hero's head.
The writer wants not death in memory of the reader forever, and love is that only three nights and three incomplete days lasted. Probably, this is quite enough to at least once to experience the real human happiness, all the completeness of the feelings that the nature gifts us. Perhaps even, it is worth living a whole life only for such three nights "and three incomplete days ...

During the Spanish war, Robert Jordan, a supporter of Republicans, should blow the bridge before the beginning of the offensive. Before this, Jordan is obliged to be in the detachment of Pablo, who in the past destroyed many enemies, but then became a fairly wealthy person and decided to stop the struggle. Pablo categorically does not want to take part in the case. Nevertheless, the side of Robert gets his wife Pablo named Pilar. This woman has a huge prestige among the partisans compared to her husband. Pilar says that it is not necessary to strive for security. As a result, the fifty-year-old Pilar becomes a unconditional detachment leader.

Pilar sincerely believes in Republicans and is ready to fight for their people to the end. Among the numerous talents of this woman, the gift is allocated to foresee the future. Jordan she says that his life path comes to an end. In addition, Pilar notices who broke the feeling between Robert and Maria, a girl from the detachment. Mary has a sad past: the fascists killed her mother and father, the girl herself was raped. Pilar has nothing against the love of a young man and a girl. On the contrary, a wise woman wishes them to realize their feelings as soon as possible. Spaniard Pilar always assists Mary, she understands that nothing will heal the soul of a girl like real love.

The next day Pilar, Maria and Robert go to the commander of one of the partisan detachments named El Cudo. Raphel at this time should look at the change of sentries next to the old Anselmo bridge - to watch the road.
During the way to El Cudo, Pilar tells a girl and a young man about the beginning of the revolutionary movement in their native town with Pablo. The people beat the fascists before death, without disassembled which of them were decent people, and there are no. Someone during the violence prayed to mercy, some courageously took death. The priest killed the people when he prayed. Pilar claims that there is no longer God in Spain. After all, if he were, he would not allow such crucial violence of people over his compatriots.

Robert with Spain has a lot of memories. It serves in this country, and also teaches Spanish. Jordan sincerely worries for the fate of the Spanish people. Despite the fact that Robert is not a representative of the Red, he believes that this war must be won. After the end of all the terrible events of the war, Jordan plans to write a book about these events.

At the disposal of the American a little more than ten people, but it needs to carry out a significant number of operations. Jordan does not deny the possibility that during the war will die. The young man considers the irony of the fate of what is just at this time he finds the first love. Robert is not sure that his life will last more than three days. Nevertheless, he is sure that in seventy-hours you can survive no less events than in seventy years.
Pilar, Maria and Robert after receiving the permission of El Cudo to get horses and start an operation, lead the way back to the camp. On the way they are overtaken by snow - a very atypical phenomenon for May, foreshadowing trouble and breaking up the upcoming business. In addition, the operation may prevent continuous intoxication Pablo. Before the onset, at night, Pablo escapes runs away from the camp with things that may be needed during the offensive.

On the same night, El Cordo went to the camp with horses, which were necessary in the case of retreat. Traces of people El Cudo and horses are found by the fascists. Fighters from Otildo Pablo cannot affect the course of battle, since there is a risk of disrupting the entire upcoming operation. Detachment El Cudo killed. One of the fascist lieutenants bypass the mountains of corpses and curses the war.
According to Anselmo's report, fascists are engaged in preparing the technique for the offensive. Jioron understand that the enemy knows about the offensive and reports to General Goltsu in detail. Now it is impossible to count on suddenness. Robert hopes that the Andres partisans will have time to transfer to the general to the dawn, and the offensive will be transferred. But preparation still continued.

During the final night with Maria, Jordan realizes that his life was not deprived of meaning. The American is afraid of death, but non-fulfillment of debt properly. He also thinks that the civil war, whose participant was his grandfather, was as terrible. Robert realizes that the same poor people are fighting on the side of the fascists as on the side of the partisans. But such thoughts that cause pity can take away all the malice and forces during the offensive.
In the morning with the army and horses in the detachment suddenly appears Pablo. He realizes that he has no right to be in a secluded place while being fighting his fellow. All night he agitated the people to participate in the fight against the fascists.

Jordan without receiving newsfrom Andres, decides to move towards the river. Everyone is obliged to engage in his business, and Maria is watching horses. Robert and Anselmo ordered clocks to leave. Jordan leaves dynamite near the bridge in case, if the offensive still starts.

Andres could not convey to the American Goltsu on time. On the road, partisan is delayed by the head commissar of international brigades, which he wanted to catch the Golz in treason. Time is lost, so you cannot cancel the offensive.
During the explosion of the bridge, Anselmo dies. Jordan breaks his leg due to the fact that during the retreat because of the rupture of the projectile he drops his horse. Robert convinces her beloved to retreat with everyone, since only in this way she can save him.

Jordan alone stands, leaning on a tree trunk, not far from the machine gun. He reflects that it is sometimes necessary to kill, but you should not love the murder. An American wishes to delay the enemy to finish his life worthy.
At this time, the representative of the enemy's troops appears in the glade ...

We draw your attention that this is only a brief content of the literary work "the command calls the bell." In this summary content, many important points and quotes are missed.

And consider it in detail the brief content. "The command calls the bell" - a novel that tells about the military events that occurred in Spain of the 1930s. The writer himself perceived the fascist rebellion very close to the heart. He not only urged Europe to intervene, but even bought military equipment for his money. But it did not help - the Republicans were not ready for the confrontation.

About the work

He was published in 1940, the novel "The command calls the bell." The summary of the work confirms that Hemingway performed on the side of the Spanish government. In addition, he was an irreconcilable opponent of fascism. The events described in the novel began in 1936, and then Europe and the United States could not suggest that their connivance would end. Unfortunately, the protest of the writer was never heard, and a year, when the book was published, fascism had already gained great strength.

Hemingway, "The Kom calls the bell": Summary (Proportion)

The main character is Robert Jordan, an American by origin, takes part in the Civil War in Spain. He acts on the side of the Republicans. A young man is given a task to blow up the bridge before the upcoming forces of the enemy.

Before the enemy is suitable, Robert must stay in the partisan detachment, which heads Pablo. There are many rumors about this person. For example, they talk about his courage, that at the very beginning of the war he killed more than fascists than the plague, but now he is rich and wants to leave on peace.

A brief description ("The command calls the bell") fully transfers the atmosphere of long-standing events. The reader sees how different people belong to what is happening. So, Pablo did not want to participate in the undermining, as it promised him and his people only trouble. However, Pilar, Pablo spouse, who used tremendous respect for her husband entered the dispute. The woman stated - those who are looking for security lose everything. The partisans liked her words, and they supported the idea of \u200b\u200bdestroying the bridge.

Pilar

Many strong personalities in their work depicts Hemingway, it confirms the summary. "The command calls the bell" - the novel about the war, and the weak people here are not a place.

Pilar is a bright person, a convinced republicancan, loyal by the people, will not go from a chosen way. This wise and bold woman pays many talents, including the gift of clairvoyance. Looking at Robert's hand on the very first day of their acquaintance, it became clear to her that his life path was nearing an end. She also saw that the hero and Maria, a girl who came to the partisans after her parents were killed, passionately love each other. Pilar does not interfere with the attraction of young people, on the contrary, she pushes them in every possible way, knowing that their happiness will last long. A woman understands that true love will be able to heal the crown soul of Mary.

Robert entails Asselmo to look at the road, Rafael - behind the clocks at the bridge, and himself goes with Maria and Pilar to El Cudo, the commander of another partisan detachment. During the trip, Pilar told about how the revolution began in the town, in which they lived with her husband, and how local residents with the fascists were dealt. The people lined up in two parallel ranches, armed with tuning and chains, and fascists were driven through this system. This was done in order for each to be responsible for the deed. None of the past this corridor survived. Everything was dying in different ways - who with dignity, and who prayed to the latter about mercy.

Jordan Reflections

Perfectly conveys the spiritual drama of the heroes. The brief content "Kom calls". Robert, listening to the story of Pilar, begins to think about what is happening. He does not surprise him at all what he got to war. Even his profession, the Spanish teacher at the university, is connected with this country. In addition, he often came here to bother, he liked to communicate with the Spaniards. The fate of these people was not indifferent to him, so the hero could not close the eyes on what was happening. Jordan does not consider himself to "red", but believes that fascism does not bring to the good. Therefore, you need to win the war. And after that, he will write a book that will help him to free himself from all the horrors.

Robert understands that during the preparation for the explosion, he may not survive - he has very few people: seven gave Pablo, as much as he promises El Cudo, but things too much. Most of all it grieves the fact that it was in this chaos and horror he met real love. He begins to think about what it can life gives him a chance to know the true feeling, because it is long for him to live in this world? But he distinguishes the dark thoughts and concludes: in 70 hours it is sometimes possible to live a more rich life than for 70 years.

Snowfall

Our summary continues ("Bell calls"). Robert, Maria and Pilar, having enlisted with the support of El Cordo and his promise to get horses, return to their camp. Begins snowfall. Nobody expects such weather at the end of May, because she can spoil everything conceived. Also Robert with Ostaya looks at Pablo, which is constantly applied to the bottle. In such a state, he can harm the cause, not even realizing it.

As promised, El Cudo took the horses. They will need if suddenly have to run after the undermining. But because of the deep snow, the fascist patrol remarked the traces of animals and people who led aside asylum. Up to the fighters of the detachment Pablo begin to commemorate the muffled sound sounds. But they cannot intervene, otherwise the operation will be completely reduced, and without it will not be able to prevent the opponent's offensive. Cudoro and his people die.

Flight Pablo

Gradually begin to collapse all the plans of the main character of the novel "The command of the bell". A brief content makes it possible to understand what Robert feels. After the destruction of the detachment, the sidotor out of the camp disappears Pablo, which runs up, taking a cord with him bicford and a box with a fuse. And without these things, the explosion is much more complicated, and the risk increases several times.

Anselmo comes with a report on movement along the road. News Disappointing - the fascists begin to drive the technique. Jordan constitutes a report of everything that happened to General Goltsu, who commands the front. Robert emphasizes special attention on the fact that the enemy is aware of the preparing counteroffensive, the Republicans will not have a chance to take advantage of the suddenness that they were so hoping. Andres, one of the partisans, is called to deliver a package for its intended purpose. If the paper can be transmitted to dawn, then the offensive will be transferred, like the break time of the bridge. But there is no order yet, so you need to prepare for the implementation of the plan.

Night before the fight

Suitable for its climax, the work "The command calls the bell". You recommend you to read a summary only if the original has once been read, otherwise you can miss many important points.

On the night before undermining Robert, lying next to Maria, brings a kind of result of his life. The hero comes to the conclusion that she lived not in vain. He is not afraid of death, he is afraid of only one - do not have time to fulfill the mission that was assigned to him. Jordan recalls his grandfather, who also took part in the American Civil War, when the north and south agreed. He thinks that she probably was as terrible as this. The words of Anselmo pop up in his memory that those who are fighting for fascists are the same poor, as well as those who speak for Republicans. But it is impossible to think about it, otherwise you will stop hating the enemy, and then you can not implement a plan.

Morning begins with a real surprise - Pablo returned. He led to the help of people and got off the horses somewhere. Pablo, being under the action of alcohol and anger, threw the detonator Robert in the abyss. But after that he was visible. He realized that he would just just go, saving his skin while his comrades were in such a misfortune. Pablo decided to help partisans. For one night he managed to dial in the surrounding villages of volunteers, ready to fight with the fascists. Some of them captured animals with them.

Mining Bridge

The decisive event is nearing. Understand this helps a summary ("The command calls the bell"). Ernest Hemingway prepared a reader in advance to the fact that his hero was not destined to survive the preparing operation. This can be seen from the prediction of the Pilar.

Jordan, not knowing whether Andres managed to convey the report, goes with a squad of the partisans to the river. Their road lies through the gorge. Mary decided to leave to look after the horses, and the rest begin to fulfill the tasks in advance. Robert with Anselm make their way to the bridge and kill the sentries. Dynamite manages to install the most supports. Everything is ready to explode. It remains only to understand whether there will be an offensive.

Unfortunately, Andres gets too late to Golts. The offensive is no longer possible.

Junction

Suitable for his final, the summary of the Hemingway novel "The Kom calls the bell." Robert explodes the bridge, while the dies of Anselmo. Surgent rushing to retreat. During the departure, the projectile breaks near the Hero horse, the animal falls and presses the rider. Jordan cannot continue the way - he has a broken leg. He persuades Maria to leave him. The wounded, Robert goes to the machine gun, he decides to delay the enemy for as much as he can.

So ears your Roman Hemingway. "The command calls the bell" (a summary of chapters demonstrates it) tells about the horrors of the war and that it contradicts the human nature.

Ernest Hemingway

"For whom the Bell Tolls"

American Robert Jordan, voluntarily participating in the Civil War in Spain on the side of the Republicans, receives a task from the center - to blow up the bridge before the onset. A few days before the offensive, he should spend in the location of the partisan detachment of some Pablo. About Pablo say that at the beginning of the war he was very dead and killed the fascists more than the bubonic plague, and then rich and now I would like to take peace. Pablo refuses to participate in this matter, which will detach the detachment of some trouble, but Jordan suddenly supports the fifty-year-old Pilar, the wife Pablo, who enjoys the partisans in immeasurably greater respect than her husband. The one who is looking for security loses everything she says. Her unanimously elect the detachment commander.

Pilar - Yaraya Republican, she is predicted by a popular business and will never get from the selected path. In this strong, wise woman taking many talents, she also possesses the gift of clairvoyance: on the first evening, looking at Robert's hand, she realized that he completes his life path. And at the same time I saw that between Robert and the girl Maria, who came to the detachment after the fascists killed her parents, and her herself were raped, a bright, rare feeling was broken. She does not prevent the development of their love relationships, and knowing how little time remained, herself pushes them to each other. All the time that Maria spent with a detachment, Pilar is improved her soul to her, and now the wise Spaniard understands: only clean, real love will heal the girl. On the first night, Maria comes to Robert.

The next day, Robert, having commissioned Anselmo's old man, to watch the road, and Rafaello - follow the change of sentinels at the bridge, goes along with Pilar and Maria to El Cudo, the commander of the neighboring partisan detachment. On the way, Pilar tells how the revolution began in a small Spanish town, on them with Pablo Motherland, and how the people dealt with the local fascists. People stood in two ranks - one opposite the other, they took the chains and batons and were driven by the fascists through the order. So it was done specifically: that every particular share of responsibility. Everyone was scored to death - even those who heard a good person - and then dropped off the cliff to the river. Everyone died in different ways: who took death with dignity, and who was whining and asked for mercy. The priest was killed right during prayer. Yes, apparently, God was canceled in Spain, sighs Pilar, because if he were, would this fratricidal war? Now there is no one to forgive people - because there is no God, nor the Son of God, nor the Holy Spirit.

Story Pilar awakens in Robert Jordan's own thoughts and memories. In the fact that he is fighting in Spain now, there is nothing surprising. His profession is connected with Spain (he teaches Spanish at the University) and the service; He often visited the war here, he loves the people of Spain, and he doesn't care at all as the fate of this people. Jordan is not red, but there are no good to wait for the fascists. So, you need to win this war. And then he will write about everything a book and then finally will be released from the horror that accompanies any wars.

Robert Jordan suggests that when preparing for an explosion of the bridge, he may die: at his disposal there are too few people - the seven of Pablo and the same at El Cudo, and things are full: you need to remove posts, cover the road, etc. And it is necessary It happens that it was here that he met his first true love. Maybe it's all that he can still take from life? Or is it general all his life and instead of seventy years she will last seventy hours? Three days. However, there is nothing to grow here: in seventy-hours you can live a more complete life than in seventy years.

When Robert Jordan, Pilar and Maria, having received the consent of El Cordo to get horses and take part in the operation, return to the camp, unexpectedly starting to snow. He brings and shakes, and this unusual phenomenon for the end of May can destroy the whole thing. In addition, Pablo is drinking all the time, and Jordan is afraid that this invading person can greatly harm.

El Cordo got it, as promised, horses in case of retreat after sabotage, but because of the snow, the fascist train notes the tracks of the partisans and horses leading to the camp of El Cudo. Jordan and fighters from the Pablo squad will hear the omissions of the battle, but can not intervene: then the whole operation can break out, so necessary for a successful offensive. The whole detachment of El Cudo dies, the fascist lieutenant, bypassing the hill, the partisans and soldiers, falls as a cross and mentally says what you can often hear in the republican camp: what a vile thing war!

This fails do not end. On the night before the onset of the camp, Pablo escapes, taking a box with a fuse and bikford cord - important things for sabotage. Without them, you can also manage, but it is more difficult, and even more risk.

An Old Man Anselmo reports Jordan about movements on the road: the fascists pull up the equipment. Jordan writes a detailed report to the commander of General Goltsu, informing the fact that the enemy clearly knows about the preparing occurrence: what Golz counted - suddenness, no longer worked. The goltz package agrees to deliver the guerrilla andres. If he managed to convey the report to dawn, Jordan does not doubt that the offensive will be transferred, and with it and the date of the bridge explosion. But yet you need to prepare ...

Last night, Lözia near Maria, Robert Jordan seems to summarize his life and comes to the conclusion that she lives not in vain. He is not afraid of death, only his thought is afraid of him: what if he does not fulfill his debt properly. Jordan recalls the grandfather - he also participated in the Civil War, only in America - in the war between the North and South. Probably she was as terrible as this. And apparently, Anselmo's rights, saying that those who fought on the side of the fascists are not the fascists, but the same poor, as well as people in republican detachments. But it is better not to think about all this, otherwise the malice will disappear, and without it, do not task.

The next morning the detachment unexpectedly returns Pablo, he brought with him people and horses. Having dropped under the hot hand in the abyss of the Dietonator Jordan, he soon felt repentance and realized that he was simply unable to stay alone when his former comrades would fight. Then he developed frantic activities, collecting all night at the surroundings of volunteers per share against the fascists.

Not knowing, I got the Andres with the report to Goltsu or not, Jordan with the partisans are removed from the place and move through the gorge to the river. It was decided to leave Maria with horses, and the rest to do - in the event of the beginning of the offensive - to each of his own business. Jordan and Old Man Anselmo descend to the bridge and remove the sentries. American sets dynamite from the supports. Now, whether the bridge will bloom, it depends only on whether the offensive will begin or not.

Meanwhile, the Andres can not get to the goltz. Overcoming the initial difficulties in the transition of the front line, when it was almost undermined by a grenade, Andres stuck at the last stage: he was detained by the chief commissioner of international brigades. The war changes not only such as Pablo. The Commissioner has recently become very suspicious, he hopes that he will succeed, delaying this man from the fascist rear, the goltz in relations with the enemy.

When Andres, in the end, miraculously gets to Goltz - it's too late: the offensive cannot be canceled.

Bridge blew. In the explosion, an old Anselmo dies. Those who survived, hurry to move away. During retreat, the projectile breaks next to Jordan's horse, she falls and presses the rider. Jordan has a broken leg, and he understands that he can't go with the rest. The main thing for him is to convince Mary to leave him. After they had, says Girl Jordan, they will always be together. She will take him with him. Wherever she go, he will always be with her. If she leaves, he will go - so she will save him.

Remaining one, Jordan freezes in front of the machine gun, having spilled to the tree trunk. The world is a good place, he thinks, for him you should fight. You have to kill, if necessary, - just do not love the murder. And now he will try to complete his life - to delay the enemy here, at least kill the officer. It can solve a lot.

And then an officer of the enemy army leaves for the clearing ...

American by origin, Robert Jordan, participates in the war in Spain. He fights on the side of the Republicans, where he receives an order to undermine the bridge before the onset. He enters the partisan detachment, submission to Pablo. But he does not want to blow the bridge. And for the rescue, Robert comes an elderly woman Pilar. She agrees with the proposal of a soldier, and it is elected by the commander of the squad.

This woman was a Yellow Republican. She chose this path, and does not want to turn it from him. She had many talents, one of which was clairvoyance. Looking at Robert's hand, the woman realized that he had long lived to live.

In the same detachment, Robert, meets his love. It was a girl Maria. A mutual feeling flashes between them, and Pilar does not interfere with it. She remembers how the girl was born to the detachment, having lost his relatives. On the first night, young people stayed alone. The next morning Robert, assigns Anselmo to look at the road, and himself goes to the next detachment, along with Pilar. On the way, she tells him about the beginning of this war. Robert rolling their own memories. He was a teacher before the war, and he taught Spanish. He often visited this country, whose people loved. Now he wants to drive fascists to resume the world again.

He feels that he can die during this operation, but does not regret anything. After all, Robert met his love. And he wants to live a few hours with his beloved than his whole life without her.

The commander of the neighboring squad, as promised, got everything necessary for the operation. But the fallen snow, brought fascists to them. The fight began, and all the fighters of the neighboring squad were killed. One fascist soldier, bypassing the mountains of corpses, squeezed himself with a cross, and said that the war is a vile thing.

And the detachment continued failures. Anselmo escaped, and grabped ammunition for the operation. Jordan writes a letter to the commander-in-chief that the fascists know about the offensive, and advises to transfer it. He sends with a detachment of one partisan from the detachment, leaning that the offensive will stop for a while.

When Anders got to the commander, it was too late. The offensive will begin by plan. Blast the bridge. In the explosion, returned Anselmo dies. The detachment leaves. At the same time, Jordan breaks his leg. He asks Mary to leave with a detachment. For him now the most important thing is to convince Mary to leave. He promises to return, and Maria leaves. Jordan remains to lie in the ambush. He wants to delay the enemy at the time, as it understands that life is over. And here, an enemy officer comes to the clearing ...