A collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway.
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This is the form he masters and he is a master of this form,
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This review is from: The short stories of Ernest Hemingway;: The first forty-nine stories and the play The fifth column (The Modern library of the world's best books)
Hemingway is one of the great short- story writers. This is the form he masters and he is a master of this form. What does the Hemingway story involve? One , it involves a kind of precise and poetic and simple description. Secondly, it involves a certain style, the famous Hemingway compression and conjunction, a style which certainly has read the King James Bible.Thirdly, it involves a hero .It is Nick Adams a midwestern American coming - of age or some avatar of him in Middle Age. It may involve a test or a moment of loss of faith .There are questions of courage often involved. " A Clean Well- Lighted Place' is the story of a Spanish old man who holds himself with dignity against the loneliness of the night and the Nada y Nada at the heart of everything. In "Soldier's Home' another disenchanted by war hero, disenchanted of all the big sayings and slogans Krebs in his own moment of truth tells his mother that he does not love her and loves nobody .The Hemingway hero is another element of these stories, the hero often destroyed but not defeated who goes through the defeat with dignity. In Fifty Grand ' the fight story there is as often lurks in the Hemingway story violence, threat , criminality but again a hero for whom some kind of dignified affirmation is necessary. Stories of humanity affirming through grace under pressure their own value against a silent and often hostile society and universe.
Perhaps . The stories are certainly far better than my poor description of them. Read them, and read some of the best there are.
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