By-Line Ernest Hemingway, Part 1

by Ernest Hemingway

Part One Of Two Parts ERNEST HEMINGWAY is a collection of Hemingway's articles and dispatches covering a span of four decades. The first part consists of pieces written for the Toronto Star Weekly between 1920 and 1924; the second set of pieces from Esquire from 1933-1939. The third section deals mostly with the Spanish Civil War and the fourth covers the Chinese situation in June 1941 and WW II. The final part consists of pieces written after 1949. "Hemingway trained for his novelist's craft as a working journalist. This collection shows us how he learned, what interested him, how his themes developed, how he grew into the literary giant he finally became." (Publisher's Source)

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First published January 1, 1922

About the author

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.

Reviews

[Nikos Tsentemeidis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Αυτά που αξίζουν κυρίως είναι τα κείμενα που έγραψε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη τέλος του 1922, ως ανταποκριτής αμερικάνικης εφημερίδας, που αφορούν την Ελλάδα

[Alex Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hemingway wrote “a classic is a thing that everyone talks about yet almost no one reads.”

To be a writer of the stature of Hemingway and to have written so many classics, most of them hailed as masterpieces when he was still alive, to known as America’s Greatest Living Author must have been both exhilarating and have come down on him like the kiss of death.

This book is filled with little known (at least to me) clever, witty, gritty, lively, extraordinarily well written pieces that show astonishing literary muscularity considering that they were meant as “quick buck” pieces for the newspapers and periodicals of the day (periodicals from the 1920’s through his time in Cuba).

They were (again, at least to me) a shot-in-the-arm for a renewal of interest in reading some of the author’s longer works that I have time and again tried to read through several of and have never managed to finish anything but The Old Man And The Sea (which I was forced to read in school and don’t remember) and his Collected Short Stories.

Most of the pieces could have been written yesterday...or tomorrow and in no way feel dated. They are, in fact, refreshing enigmatic, ironically humorous and energetically articulate to a super-modern degree.

Although, classed as non-fiction, their narrative style at times causes confusion in the mind’s eye with their value as art, and art in the best sense, too: as light, clean, hard, smooth, gritty and gut-wrenching as anything you could have wished to be conveyed in the medium of the written word.

Extra note: I tried again to read THE SUN ALSO RISES and sadly, only got to page 148 before giving up.

Perhaps, I will go through life never to have read, as an adult, any book other than this one and those Short Stories (like WINNER TAKE NOTHING).

So, I will read through this one twice.

The narration was excellent, masterfully suited for this material.

[Kostas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Το πήρα για την μικρασιατική καταστροφή όπως διαφημίζει αλώστε και το εξώφυλλο αλλά αφιερώνει μόνο λίγες σελίδες στο τέλος του βιβλίου...