What's your favorite Hemingway novel (or short stories collection) ?
>>24728761Islands in the Stream
>>24728769Oh I didn't know this one !
>>24728761A Farewell to Arms or The Old Man and the Sea. No need to pretend to be different, peak is peak.
>>24728780First part is great, then the final nazi chase is good again as well.
>>24728761I love to read about things that are literally happening with no symbolism>like:Reply from Quote Investigator: In September 1952 Ernest Hemingway sent a letter to Renaissance art specialist Bernard Berenson. Hemingway commented on the lack of intentional symbolism in “The Old Man and the Sea”. The letter was reprinted in the collection “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”. The collection editor noted that the famous author used an irregular spelling for “symbolism”. Boldface added to excerpts by QI:1Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm (mis-spelled). The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. A writer should know too much.Below are additional selected citations in chronological order.In 1954 “Time” magazine published a profile of Hemingway, and the editors commented on his novella:2In the past, hardly anyone ever suspected Hemingway novels of symbolism. Then, in The Old Man and the Sea, people saw symbols—the old man stood for man’s dignity, the big fish embodied nature, the sharks symbolized evil (or maybe just the critics).Hemingway told “Time” that writers should not deliberately plant symbols in their stories, but he conceded that readers could find many meanings in his tale:“No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in,” says Hemingway. “That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. Raisin bread is all right, but plain bread is better.”He opens two bottles of beer and continues: “I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things. The hardest thing is to make something really true and sometimes truer than true.”In 1993 “The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations” included an entry for the remark. The spelling for “symbolism” was corrected:3There isn’t any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961), U.S. author. Letter, 13 Sept. 1952, to the critic Bernard Berenson (published in Selected Letters, ed. by Carlos Baker, 1981), of The Old Man and the Sea, published that year.
If "For sale, baby shoes, never worn" is a short story then this is a short story, and it's my favorite thing Hemingway ever wrote.>Fidel's revolution is very pure and beautiful. The Cuban people finally have a chance. Everyone who's getting shot deserves it.
I like the development between A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, sometimes you just fucking lose hard due to chance despite your efforts, but sometimes there can still be a kind of victory in defeat.
>>24728761Never read him and never will.
>>24729431Why ?
>>24728761Haven't seen the sun also rises here yet, one of the most pleasurable reads one can get.
>>24729467I must be loyle to my capo
>>24728761The Sun Also rises (Fiesta) is my favourite but I have a soft spot for both Across The River And Into The trees and The garden Of Eden.
>>24728761Men without women is fantastic.
>>24728761I've only read The sun also rises and For whom the bell tolls. I prefer the latter slightly, both are good but not personal favourites.
