He had long since made his separate peace with the war of his youth and focussed his talent on the terse eloquence of the nobly wounded, the faithfully adrift, the stoically defeated the Hemingway antihero, withdrawn from all causes, became a type of such popular influence that a whole crop of movies, novels, and actual lives grew laconic in imitation. Hemingway was an unlikely recruit to the Spanish cause.
![hemingway editor for spanish hemingway editor for spanish](https://theancestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Mark-Hemingway.png)
The moveable feast had crashed the Red decade. Every morning, the other guests woke up to the smell of eggs, bacon, and coffee being prepared by a Hemingway flunky in Room 108, courtesy of the Communist International. Though the Hotel Florida wasn’t the Café des Amateurs, Hemingway managed to procure, thanks in part to impeccable connections with the Spanish government and the Russian general staff, the best food and brandy in the city.
![hemingway editor for spanish hemingway editor for spanish](https://media.slidesgo.com/storage/22369440/responsive-images/39-minimalist-abstract-spanish-palette-aesthetic-newsletter___media_library_original_937_527.jpg)
The occasion was the Spanish Civil War, already in its ninth month, but the regular shelling of the Hotel Florida and other privations of the Fascist siege didn’t prevent Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, and Hemingway’s latest distraction from the thought of suicide, Martha Gellhorn, from living well. There was a moment, in April of 1937, when the Lost Generation of nineteen-twenties Paris reunited in Madrid.