Котка в дъжда

by Ernest Hemingway, Ърнест Хемингуей

Видният американски писател Ърнест Хемингуей е известен на нашите читатели най-вече с големите си художествени произведения - "Празникът, който е винаги с тебе", "Сбогом, оръжие!", "Да имаш и да нямаш", "За кого удря часът", "Старецът и морето"...

Наред с романите обаче в литературното наследство на Хемингуей важно място заема и късият разказ. Произведенията, поместени в "Котка в дъжда", представят много ярко белетристичното майсторство на Хемингуей, характерните черти на неговия стил - пестеливост на езика, яснота на описанията, необикновено сбит диалог с дълбок подтекст, умение да се изпуска несъщественото. Разказите разкриват едно огромно богатство от теми и мисли. В тях доминира великата идея на писателя, че човек може да остане непобеден дори когато търпи поражение.

144 pages, Paperback

Published December 11, 1973

About the author

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Renowned for his economical, understated writing style, which profoundly influenced twentieth-century literature, he became one of the most prominent literary figures of his generation. His adventurous lifestyle and outspoken personality also contributed to his public image. Most of his works were published between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two works of nonfiction. His writings became classics of American literature, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Several additional novels, short-story collections and nonfiction works were published posthumously.

Hemingway grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduating from high school, he worked for six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before volunteering for the American Red Cross. During the First World War, he served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences later inspired his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms.

In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, his first wife, and moved with her to Paris. There, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and became part of the expatriate literary and artistic community known as the Lost Generation, alongside influential modernist writers and artists. His debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926. He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer the following year.

Hemingway later travelled to Spain, where he worked as a journalist during the Spanish Civil War. The conflict provided the background for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. He married Martha Gellhorn, his third wife, in 1940, but their marriage ended after he met journalist Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during the Second World War. He married Welsh in 1946.

As a war correspondent during the Second World War, Hemingway accompanied Allied troops during the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained residences in Key West, Florida, during the 1930s and in Cuba during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1954, while travelling in Africa, he survived two plane crashes on successive days, sustaining serious injuries that contributed to years of physical pain and declining health.

In 1959, Hemingway purchased a house in Ketchum, Idaho. On July 2, 1961, at the age of 61, he died by suicide at his home.

Reviews

[Estelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

Определено не можах да завърша всички разкази в тази книга. Не се отличава с нищо, краят на разказите никога не е интригуващ някак. Човек може да спре къде да е в разказа и да няма ни най - малко желание да продължи. Като висящи във времето са. С или без тях е все едно. Не знам какво очаквах.

[Elena Balabanova · Rating 1 out of 5]

Едва ли отново ще посегна към Хемингуей, не мисля, че неговото творчество е за мен.

[Plamena Anova · Rating 2 out of 5]

Пропуснала съм да я отбележа тази книжка. Не ме грабна и това си е, дори на моменти темите по химия ми бяха по-интересни от нея.

[George Mishkovitz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Нормални разкази! Биват.