乞力马扎罗的雪 (译文经典)

by Ernest Hemingway, 汤永宽 (translator), 鹿金等 (translator)

171 pages, 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

[Jacky · Rating 5 out of 5]

晚上把海姆的最后一个短篇看完了。离上次拿起实体书阅读，已经过去了三个星期。重新翻开时，前面的剧情差不多都忘了。

我是在家附近的咖啡店读的。店里只有一位女咖啡师，顾客也只有我一个。我花了不少时间，才重新进入文本。

可一旦进入，竟发现里面是多么迷人。尽管几乎只是对话，我却和人物们贴得那么近，非洲的野外世界也在想象里徐徐展开。

有时，读一位作家的十篇短篇，也未必能碰上一篇真正引发共鸣的。可一旦碰上，那种激动的心情，就好像这位作家是你的朋友，借着你的笔在写，而且写得比你出色得多。

我对这最后一篇的喜欢，应该比前面其余几篇加起来都还要多。也是透过它，我才多理解了海姆一点。

从男主角的害怕里，我看到了自己的影子。我也在畏畏缩缩地生活，想做的事情很多，却缺乏勇气行动。他的蜕变鼓舞了我。

我在咖啡店坐了两个小时，已经很久没有这样沉浸过了。店员好意地把关门时间延迟了半个小时。晚上十点，我走出咖啡店门口，晚风轻轻吹在脸上。我感到幸福，也想尽快去读海姆的下一本书。