The mere phrase "Man can be destroyed, but not defeated" inspired hundreds of millions of readers and set off a "Hemingway craze" around the world.
As a generation of literary giants, Hemingway created a total of 24 works in his lifetime, which have been selling well for half a century and are still talked about by the world.
Not only did he win the Nobel Prize in Literature, but his life was as wonderful as a Hollywood blockbuster – he experienced two world wars and survived two crashes. His personal hobbies have always been confrontational: boxing, bullfighting, fishing, hunting, and traveling the world at the same time, these rich experiences have also provided valuable material for his literary creation.
When we look back at the entire history of the 20th century, it seems difficult to find a writer who rivals Hemingway in the richness of life.
While exhausting the "tough guy" heroic plot, many works also fully prove Hemingway's deep insight, precise expression and broad compassion as a great writer. His writings transcend time and resonate and reverberate with readers of different eras.
In today's recommended list of books, in addition to the "tough guy" Hemingway that you and I are familiar with, there are also idols, prodigal sons, cat slaves, warriors, lovers of the multi-faceted Hemingway - obviously, when he comes to this world, he wants to try, to taste, to feel, to meet his own limits. For him, only by confronting talent, power, and danger can a person shine out of his own excellence.
Who doesn't love such a Hemingway?
The Old Man and the Sea: A Selection of Hemingway's Short Stories
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. The novel revolves around the story of an elderly Cuban fisherman wrestling with a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream. "The Old Man and the Sea" established Hemingway's prominent position in the history of world literature, and won the Pulitzer Prize in the United States in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
The above book, jointly customized by Shanghai Translation Publishing House and Sisyphus, "The Old Man and the Sea: A Selection of Hemingway's Short Stories", contains classic photos and scene photos, as well as photos written by Hemingway, with pictures and texts, we can feel the strong belief that Hemingway conveyed to us.
"The Sun Also Rises"
The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's famous work and his first novel, telling the story of a group of young men and women who were self-exiled and wandering in Paris after the First World War, and the text highlights their lifestyles and ideological emotions.
The novel condenses and brings together young Hemingway's own thoughts, emotions, intellect, pain and his vision of the future, and is a deep extension of Hemingway's own life experience and philosophical thinking. Immediately after the publication of the book, the phrase "lost generation" spread, spread more and more widely, and then evolved into a conceptual literary term that represented both the main creative tendencies of the younger generation of postwar writers and a marker of the ideological mood of this generation.
"Farewell, Weapon"
The American young Fridric Henry volunteered to drive an ambulance across the Red Cross in the late world war, rescuing the wounded on the northern Italian front. During a mission, Henry was wounded by a shell and was nursed by a British nurse, Catherine, while recuperating at a hospital in Milan, and the two fell in love. Henry returned to the front line after recovering from his wounds, witnessed the cruel scenes of the war as the Italian troops retreated, resolutely broke away from the troops, and fled to Switzerland after meeting Catherine. As a result, Catherine died in childbirth.
The novel "Farewell Forever, Weapon" has a strong autobiographical color, which is a mournful and moving song sung by Hemingway based on his own experience in the war, with war and love as the main line. The novel has been adapted to the screen many times and can be called a classic of modern literature.
A Feast of Flow
"If you are fortunate enough to live in Paris when you were young, she will be with you wherever you go for the rest of your life, because Paris is a feast of flow." There are countless fictional and non-fiction works about Paris, and Hemingway's "flowing feast" is perhaps the most lingering and lamentable of them.
In the 1920s, Hemingway and his new wife lived in Paris as a correspondent in Europe, and this book records the memories of this stay. However, the writing of this book is more than thirty years later, in other words, the "scene" of the feast has long disappeared, and the author and the reader are only tracing the past years in memory, and those people and things have been out of focus and deformed in the lens of time. All personal memories of Paris are mixed together into a common historical memory of Paris.
For Whom the Death Knell Tolls
"No one is an island, it is one and the same; everyone is a small part of the European continent, part of the native land; if a piece of mud is washed away by the waves, Europe is a little smaller, if a headland, if your friend or your own manor is washed away, so is the death of anyone who makes me deficient, for I am inseparable from mankind; so there is no need to inquire for whom the death knell is sounded; the death knell is for you."
For Whom the Death Knell Tolls is one of Hemingway's most widely circulated novels. The theme of American volunteers participating in the Spanish People's Anti-Fascist War can be seen as Hemingway's "Memoirs of World War II", most of which comes from Hemingway's real experience and has touched generations of people with his deep humanitarian strength.
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
He was a "double agent" between the United States and the Soviet Union; he piloted his yacht "Pilar" to scout nazi submarines in the Caribbean; he commanded an informant network called "Liar Factory" in Cuba to gather intelligence for the United States; fought alongside the U.S. Army and obtained key intelligence for the liberation of Paris for the War Intelligence Agency in the ground battles in Europe; he was also a Soviet agent code-named "Argo"...
Writers, Sailors, Soldiers, Spies is a biography of Hemingway by Nicholas Reynolds. For Hemingway, the style of life may be far more important than the literary style. Life is all it is, like timbre, can't get rid of it - don't look for excitement, let the stimulation come to the door, hemingway is how life encounters surprise, drama and adventure.
Hemingway's Epistles
Hemingway was a well-known tough guy writer, but in the fifty years before his death, he wrote about six or seven thousand letters! Sentences such as "Lonely to death, write to me" and "Write to me, I am lonely to death" are all over his letters. In a letter to a girlfriend, he also admitted bluntly: "I am writing to make you happy and because I am lonely." "In these letters, we can see the sensitivity and vulnerability beyond Hemingway's tough guys.
The Collection of Hemingway's Letters is a selection of nearly 600 letters from Hemingway between 1917 and 1961. In these letters we see a Hemingway who was either straightforward, flattering, gentle, or aggressive. The humor, wildness and spontaneity he exudes far exceed his work, and it can be called an unconventional autobiography of a writer. In the discussion of women, soldiers, politicians, boxers, in the depiction of special hobbies such as hunting, fishing, and eating, Hemingway's character and wisdom are ready to come out.
"Life, Elsewhere"
Fifty years after Hemingway's death, his granddaughter Marel Hemingway finally wrote an exclusive account of his grandfather's little-known life experience and writing journey. The video collection "Life, Elsewhere" contains more than 300 precious photos, manuscripts, information pictures, etc., most of which are published for the first time.
With a unique "intimate perspective", the book shows the reader the literary tough guys, warriors, hunters, husbands, lovers, fathers known as the "spiritual pillars of the United States"... The lesser-known side, peeling off the hard shell and aura of "Hemingway", reveals the soft core of "Ernest", showing the impulsive passion, contradictory resistance, confusion and false carnival that belong to a living life.
Scrapbook of author Hemingway's life
For many, Hemingway is more of a mythic aggregator than a man, but behind these legends, his real life remains a mystery. The Scrapbook of the Writer Hemingway's Life is a collection of 400 photographs of various stages and aspects of Hemingway's life, as well as more than 100 letters, many of which have never been published, which together form a vivid and vivid portrait of Hemingway.
From photographs of bulls running with bulls at the Spanish Bullfighting Festival to candid letters to wives and publishers, this book pays a unique tribute to this great figure in the history of literature through his often used artifacts, moments of seeing, and daily thoughts.
Hemingway: The Final Interview
Hemingway: The Last Interview is an unusual record of four interviews hemingway conducted with the Paris Review, The Atlantic, and other media. Many of the answers in the interviews were mean, charming, and sincere, just like the interviewees themselves. He single-handedly redefined and rewrote the face of American literature.
In order to present a real hemingway, the interviewer insisted for many years, repeatedly hit the wall, and left valuable interview materials. What was Hemingway's life in the last years of his life? What is his insight into fiction writing? How is his daily life? From his dedication to the work, one can glimpse a different Hemingway.
The adventure inspired Hemingway to write For Whom the Death Knell and The Old Man and the Sea, but it also brought a huge psychological burden to the writer, who suffered from mental illness and eventually ended his life by suicide.
In the 62 years of time on earth, Hemingway harvested material and literary achievements, experienced the enthusiasm of friendship and love, and reflected with the most magnificent and wild landscapes in the world, realized the interaction of value and philosophy between reality and fiction, and also left the "Hemingway Will" that "can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated" to generations of light-chasers.
More recommendations
"Crossing the River into the Forest"
"The Rich and the Rich"
"Dawn shows truth"
"Death in the Afternoon"
The Garden of Eden
"Dangerous Summer"
The Green Mountains of Africa
"The Island in the Gulf Stream"