流动的盛宴 (译文经典)

by Ernest Hemingway, 汤永宽 (translator)

Kindle Edition

Published July 1, 2020

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

[Ming Kahnawake · Rating 5 out of 5]

这是上个世纪早期在巴黎的文人大家们的故事，海明威描写了与庞德、乔伊斯、菲茨杰拉德等文学艺术巨匠之间的种种趣事。阅读、聚会、赛马、饮酒、美食、滑雪、拳击......这些一向描写他人的人，在海明威的笔下呈现出鲜活的甚至阴暗的诸多方面。巴黎能聚集到这么多文人墨客，自由它独特的魅力。去过巴黎的人都知道，那份松弛感，那份慵懒的调调，那份浓厚的艺术气息使每个人都有了一种神秘的吸引力。等你离开巴黎，这种魅力也会消失殆尽。所以这些大文人们的来来去去，真的就是一场流动的盛宴。当然，在这盛宴中，海明威说的也未必都是事实。他有自己的喜好和评判。真真假假，就像书的结尾：“这本书就包含着我记忆与内心许多切下的部分。即便我的记忆已受侵蚀，而内心早已破碎。”所以说，归类小说呢怕也不大合适，或许更多的算是海明威的回忆录。
书中对作家们如何写作以及写作方法多有提及，也是很不错的写作指南。这算是盛宴中给读者的鸡尾酒吧。