Noaptea dinaintea bataliei si alte povestiri

by Ernest Hemingway

Noaptea dinaintea bataliei si alte povestiri, impreuna cu volumul Zapezile de pe Kilimanjaro si alte povestiri, tradus la Editura Polirom in 2007, formeaza integrala prozei scurte a lui Ernest Hemingway. In mare parte, micile naratiuni din acest volum, unele dintre ele ramase neterminate, au fost concepute sub forma unor schite pentru romanele ce-i vor aduce mai tarziu celebritatea si, in 1954, Premiul Nobel pentru Literatura. Pasiunea pentru pescuit si vanatoare, cel mai adesea intalnita in povestirile ce-l au drept protagonist pe Nick Adams, aventurile traficantilor de alcool din Cuba sau experienta americanilor stramutati in Europa, formidabilele lupte de tauri din Spania, pentru care scriitorul insusi nutrea un viu interes, precum si realitatea cruda a razboiului - pe care Hemingway a cunoscut-o in mod direct prin participarea sa la cele doua conflagratii mondiale si la Razboiul Civil din Spania - sunt temele majore ale volumului de fata, ca si ale operei lui Hemingway in ansamblul sau.

392 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

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

[Cristians. Sirb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Povestiri esențializate până la atom. Măiestrie! N-ai zice că unele-s fragmente (nefolosite) din ceea ce trebuia să fie un roman. Stau bine pe picioarele lor, chiar și așa.

Ultimul text este unul dintre cele mai “mișcătoare”. O iubire (a ei) care te face să plângi. Un sarcasm/cinism (al lui) ce ar tăia și cea mai bine legată maioneză.

[Claudia Șerbănescu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cele mai multe dintre povestirile reunite în acest volum sunt exerciții de scriitură, unele publicate, altele rămase în stadiu de proiect.