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Obtenido de "http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Por_qui%C3%A9n_doblan_las_campanas"Por quién doblan las campanas, en inglés For Whom the Bell Tolls, es una novela publicada en 1940, cuyo autor, Ernest Hemingway, participó en la Guerra Civil Española como corresponsal, pudiendo ver los acontecimientos que se sucedieron durante la contienda.
El título procede de la "Meditación XVII" de Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, obra perteneciente al poeta metafísico John Donne, y que data de 1624:
- Nadie es una isla, completo en sí mismo; cada hombre es un pedazo de continente, una parte de la tierra.; si el mar se lleva una porción de tierra, toda Europa queda disminuida, como si fuera un promontorio, o la casa de uno de tus amigos, o la tuya propia. La muerte de cualquier hombre me disminuye porque estoy ligado a la humanidad; por consiguiente nunca hagas preguntar por quién doblan las campanas: doblan por ti.
- John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It was written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not clearly identify the disease in his text.) The work consists of twenty-three parts corresponding to each stage of the illness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation, and a Prayer.[1]
The seventeenth meditation is perhaps the best-known part of the work. It contains the following passage:
“ No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ” The phrase "For whom the bell tolls" was famously used as the title of a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway, which in turn provided the title for a 1985 Metallica song.
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