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Με υπογραφή Χέμινγουεϊ, 1941-1956: Β΄ Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος, Αφρική, Κούβα

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Η ακτινοβολία του Χέμινγουεϊ ως συγγραφέα, προτού τιμηθεί με το Βραβείο Νόμπελ, ήταν τόσο μεγάλη που μοιραία επισκίασε δύο άλλες ιδιότητές του με τις οποίες επίσης είχε αποκτήσει διεθνή φήμη. Πριν γίνει ο δημοφιλής μυθιστοριογράφος, ένας σύγχρονος κλασικός, υπήρξε διακεκριμένος πολεμικός ανταποκριτής και στρατιωτικός αναλυτής. Με τούτο τον τόμο, τον τρίτο και τελευταίο στη σειρά, ολοκληρώνεται η έκδοση των δημοσιογραφικών του κειμένων που καλύπτουν μια πυκνή σε γεγονότα δεκαπενταετία, την περίοδο 1941-1956, τον Β΄ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο και τα μεταπολεμικά χρόνια. Τον παρακολουθούμε από τα πεδία των μαχών ως τις ακτές της αγαπημένης του Κούβας. Από τις διεισδυτικές ανταποκρίσεις του, όταν βρισκόταν στην Άπω Ανατολή, περνάμε στην ατμοσφαιρική περιγραφή της Απόβασης στη Νορμανδία. Από την εμπειρία της πτήσης με βομβαρδιστικό αεροπλάνο μεταφερόμαστε στη Μάχη του Παρισιού και αμέσως μετά γινόμαστε μάρτυρες της αντεπίθεσης των συμμαχικών δυνάμεων σε γερμανικό έδαφος. Και από το απαιτητικό ψάρεμα του ιστιοφόρου ξιφία στ' ανοιχτά της Αβάνας, πάνω στην περίφημη «Πιλάρ», φτάνουμε στην απίστευτη περιπέτεια που έζησε μες στην αφρικανική ζούγκλα, τότε που διάβασε, όντας ζωντανός, τις νεκρολογίες που γράφτηκαν για εκείνον.

224 pages, Paperback

Published June 18, 2019

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Ernest Hemingway

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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.

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Ο Χέμινγουεϊ ήταν στην απόβαση της Νορμανδίας σαν πολεμικός ανταποκριτής και αφηγείται μέσα από το μέτωπο...Πολύ ενδιαφέρον και αληθινό !
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