Hemingway, a famous American writer, was once known as the world's first tough guy in the literary world. As a literati, Hemingway not only has the magic of flowers, but also has the extraordinary martial courage, and also has a chivalrous heart of hoeing the strong and helping the weak and guarding justice.
Before World War II, the world was overcast and covered with fascism. The three fascist countries of Germany, Italy and Japan formed an alliance with the intention of dividing up the world and changing the existing pattern.
In 1938, a civil war broke out in Spain. The fascist Franco, with the support of Germany and Italy, launched an onslaught against the Spanish Republic with the intention of establishing a fascist regime.
Spain has always been Hemingway's favorite country. In order to defend the Spanish people, Hemingway resolutely joined the international column and fought fiercely against the fascists. However, due to the embargo of the Spanish Republic by Britain and the United States and other countries, as well as the destruction of the "Fifth Column", Franco successfully usurped the Spanish power.
With great grief, Hemingway left Spain. After returning to the United States, he wrote an immortal anti-fascist novel based on his own experience, "For Whom the Death Knell Sounds". Jordan, the alien warrior who fights on familiar land in the book, is Hemingway himself. Hemingway returned from the battlefield and thoroughly trained him to be a good warrior.
In 1941, before the Pearl Harbor incident, the US government was still kidnapped by "isolationism". However, President Roosevelt and other people of insight, German, Italian, and Japanese fascism are the great enemies of world peace, and sooner or later they will bring great threats to the United States. Therefore, the U.S. government decided to send Hemingway to China to investigate China's anti-Japanese situation in the name of honeymooning with his wife.
After several tosses, Hemingway finally arrived in Chongqing and was warmly welcomed by Mr. Jiang and people from all walks of life. Originally, Hemingway did not have to go to the front line in person, and as a guest of honor in China, he did not have to take any risks. But as a warrior, Hemingway insisted on going to the front, wanting to witness the war between China and Japan.
The first stop on Hemingway's visit to China was Shaoguan, Guangdong. The Kuomintang army was divided into 8 theaters, and Shaoguan belonged to the seventh theater. There, Hemingway was warmly welcomed by anti-Japanese officers and soldiers. Looking at the Chinese warriors, Hemingway's blood boiled, and he could not help but give an impromptu speech, encouraging the non-commissioned officers to kill the enemy heroically and make meritorious contributions to the motherland.
Along the way, Hemingway witnessed the heroic resistance of Chinese officers and soldiers, and also saw the astonishing brutality of the Japanese army. Everywhere the Japanese passed, there was a depression. And all this also reminds Hemingway of the Spanish Civil War and the brutal fascist gangs.
Once, Hemingway and others sneaked into the jungle and tried to cross the Japanese blockade line. The Japanese blockade line was formed by barbed wire and bunkers. Next to the bunker, Japanese sentries carried guns and patrolled back and forth menacingly. Seeing this, Hemingway skillfully crawled forward and cut the barbed wire with pliers. Then the cat leaned over, holding a dagger, and quietly approached the Single Japanese Sentry. Suddenly, Hemingway suddenly struck, and he covered Nikko's mouth with his thick arm and sealed one of the knives in his throat.
Hemingway's killing action was clean and neat, which made the entourage shocked, scared and happy. Hemingway then unloaded the Japanese guns and grenades and returned to his entourage through the gap in the barbed wire. Afterwards, Hemingway said to everyone:
"These Japanese demons have been burning and plundering on Chinese soil, and I have endured all kinds of evil deeds for a long time. Tonight it happened to be a chance encounter, killed one of their sentries, captured a gun and a few grenades, and relieved the hatred in their hearts. ”
You know, the United States did not enter the war at that time, and it was not an ally with China. Hemingway did this out of hatred for the Japanese aggressors and sympathy for the Chinese resistance to Japan.
Hemingway's "honeymoon in China" trip with his wife is hard to say romantic, let alone comfortable. In the war-torn environment, Hemingway did not eat well, did not live comfortably, and was full of mud and mosquitoes. But Hemingway was good at making fun of the bitterness, and in the face of war, Hemingway could still fight with the generals, drinking them drunk and crooked.
At the same time, Chinese's courageous spirit against rape opened Hemingway's eyes. He once encouraged the leaders of the Chinese guerrillas:
"This unjust war waged by the Japanese fascists is doomed to failure and will certainly be drowned in the vast ocean of the Chinese people, because Chinese people are engaged in a just war. China can never be conquered! ”
After returning to the United States, Hemingway compared the two parties he had personally experienced and wrote six reports. At the same time, in a detailed report to the U.S. government on the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Hemingway mentioned that the Communists would definitely take over China after the war, because the best people in the country were the Communists. The Kuomintang, on the other hand, excluded dissidents and regarded the Japanese as a "skin disease" and the Communist Party as a disease of its confidants. (From the "Party History Collection", No. 8-9, 2015) It has to be said that Hemingway was indeed prescient.
At the same time, Hemingway originally wanted to write a novel about the Chinese War of Resistance, but for various reasons, it could not be written. However, this trip to China still provided Hemingway with a lot of inspiration and material.
In 1952, Hemingway wrote his masterpiece—— — novella The Old Man and the Sea. In this novel, the imprint of his trip to China is repeatedly recorded. He borrows the story of the old fisherman Santiago who fights with the big sailfish and fights with the sea, reflecting the touching example of fighting the powerful enemy with the weak and the final victory over the strong enemy, and embodying a kind of courage and confidence shown by people in the real world full of violence and death. And this novel also made Hemingway win the Nobel Prize, and has since become a world-renowned writer.
Hemingway's novels are wonderful, and his life is even more wonderful. It is precisely because Hemingway has been constantly trying, constantly taking risks, and constantly experiencing throughout his life that his novels are all-encompassing, meteorological, and have a majestic temperament and sense of reality that ordinary people do not have.
As the famous Colombian writer Marcos said of Hemingway: "Like a short story of varying quality, his long story is all-encompassing." In contrast, the essence of his short stories is to give the impression that something is omitted from the work, or rather, what makes the work full of mysterious elegance. ”
In addition to the courage to experience, Hemingway's excellence in his works also deserves our respect. In the creation of the book "Farewell, Weapon", he revised it for 6 months, and the last page was changed 39 times. The creation of "For Whom the Death Knell Tolls" took 17 months to create, and it was revised every day after it was unscripted. And it is precisely this kind of careful consideration that makes his novel a superior product.
Hemingway's book is so worth reading. That's why I recommend the book Hemingway's Collected Writings. The book includes dozens of popular works such as Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Kilimanjaro's Snow, and Capital of the World. We read Hemingway not only to read his works, but also to appreciate the life of this old friend of the Chinese and the literary hero. The price of this book is 49 yuan, if you want to appreciate the style of the Nobel Prize, this book is worth buying.
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