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Nel nostro tempo
La prima raccolta di racconti firmati da Ernest Hemingway. Un esordio fulminante, che avrebbe segnato per sempre la letteratura americana contemporanea, e non solo. Quando "In Our Time" (questo è il titolo originale) fu pubblicato nel 1925, qualcuno fra i più lungimiranti critici letterari gridò al capolavoro. L’uso semplice, diretto e preciso del linguaggio consentiva al giovane giornalista, già allora a caccia di avventure e di esperienze forti, di trasmettere una gamma straordinariamente ampia di emozioni complesse. Hemingway divenne subito una delle “promesse” più sfolgoranti della scena letteraria americana. Nel nostro tempo contiene i primi classici di primi fra tutti i famosi racconti con protagonista Nick Adams, Indian Camp e The Three Day Blow, piccoli capolavori di narrativa. Da allora, lo “stile Hemingway” si imporrà con tutta la sua forza una prosa snella e dura, ravvivata da uno straordinario orecchio per il colloquiale e un altrettanto eccezionale occhio per il realistico. È stato detto che, in questa raccolta, per la prima volta la scrittura hemingwayana suggerisce, attraverso le affermazioni più semplici, un senso di valore morale e una chiarezza di visione». «In Our Time», ha scritto un famoso critico, «è l’opera di Hemingway più sorprendente, sia in termini di coinvolgimento personale che di innovazione tecnica».
170 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 30, 2024
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Ernest Hemingway
2,215 books32.4k followersErnest 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.
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.
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July 31, 2025
"in our time" (tutto in minuscolo) è la prima raccolta di racconti (mai pubblicata in italiano in questa forma) dell'autore americano, poi confluita nei "49 racconti".
La raccolta è scandita in capitoli ciascuno dei quali è introdotto da brevissimi testi che trattano eventi e situazioni del nostro tempo (appunto).
Edmund Wilsono li paragonò ai dipinti di Goya.
La scrittura di Hemingway in purezza, fa venire i brividi.
Da rileggere, soprattutto per paragonare la traduzione (a volte fantasiosa) con le precedenti.
Una copertina tra le più brutte che abbiano mai dedicato ai libri di Hemingway.
La raccolta è scandita in capitoli ciascuno dei quali è introdotto da brevissimi testi che trattano eventi e situazioni del nostro tempo (appunto).
Edmund Wilsono li paragonò ai dipinti di Goya.
La scrittura di Hemingway in purezza, fa venire i brividi.
Da rileggere, soprattutto per paragonare la traduzione (a volte fantasiosa) con le precedenti.
Una copertina tra le più brutte che abbiano mai dedicato ai libri di Hemingway.
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