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Dateline: Toronto collects all 172 pieces that Hemingway published in the Star, including those under pseudonyms. Hemingway readers will discern his unique voice already present in many of these pieces, particularly his knack for dialogue. It is also fascinating to discover early reportorial accounts of events and subjects that figure in his later fiction. As William White points out in his introduction to this work, "Much of it, over sixty years later, can still be read both as a record of the early twenties and as evidence of how Ernest Hemingway learned the craft of writing." The enthusiasm, wit, and skill with which these pieces were written guarantee that Dateline: Toronto will be read for pleasure, as excellent journalism, and for the insights it gives to Hemingway's works. ... Read more

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Ernest Hemingway has long been recognized as one of the most important and influential fiction writers of the twentieth century. Despite receiving many accolades during his lifetime, including the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, his work also attracted a good deal of criticism. Some critics felt that his characters lacked depth; others, especially feminists, objected to his emphasis on hyper-masculine subject matter, such as warfare, bullfighting, and hunting.

In this fresh reevaluation of Hemingway's career, literary critic Donald Bouchard takes a new and different perspective from that of traditional Hemingway critics. He draws on the postmodernist writings of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Edward Said (who was greatly influenced by Foucault's thought). From this perspective, Bouchard underscores Hemingway's self-conscious focus on his career as a writer, and the ways in which he addressed critical responses to his works. He makes frequent reference to Hemingway's correspondence to highlight key turning points in Hemingway's career, takes issue with the early tendency to reduce Hemingway's works to the "biographical," and shows how Hemingway's innovations resulted from a variety of factors, most notably his preoccupation with his literary career.

The early chapters trace Hemingway's specific view of literary modernism and its effect on his writing. The later chapters show how he disowned his earliest allegiance and developed a distinct "political" point of view -- not one to be confused with party affiliations or political slogans but his own individualistic point of view.

In addition, Bouchard pays more attention than most critics have to those works that were largely ignored or devalued when published, especially Death in the Afternoon and Across the River Into the Trees.

This thoughtful, in-depth study of the career of a 20th-century literary icon shows that there is still a great deal in Hemingway's work that deserves serious critical reflection. ... Read more

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High school to college-level students of Hemingway will find this absorbing
Hemingway: So Far From Simple offers a new perspective on Hemingway's career and life, with literary critic Donald Bouchard using the postmodernist writings of Michael Goucault and others to consider Hemingway's career as a writer and how he addressed criticism of his work. High school to college-level students of Hemingway will find this absorbing.
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From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.' This is a collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including "Up in Michigan", "Fifty Grand", and "The Light of the World", and the "Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Winner Take Nothing" and "Men Without Women" collections. ... Read more

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Complete Nirvana
Although you can get twice as many stories in the new complete edition, this small paperback is perfect for people who don't want to commit to a hard-cover, or to 300+ pages of a Hemingway novel, or to long chapters.The few 4+ page short stories I read in this collection let me glimpse Hemingway's genius and still have more and want more.There is a nice, short preface to these stories written by EH. ... Read more

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With Hemingway in Africa
"Under Kilimanjaro" is a welcome addition to the volume of work done by Hemingway and others on his two major African safaris- one in 1933 and then 20 years later in 1953. We're taken along with him and the native guides stalking lions, wildebeest and other dangerous, yet beautiful animals out in the wild, through dense underbrush, along rocky cliffs and down hazardous embankments to watering holes rimmed with zebras, hyenas and vultures, all in their native habitat. Hemingway loved Africa- and it comes out clearly in this book, which is a near literal transciption of his notes from the last safari which almost cost him his life in plane crashes on the return trip.

Striking in this story is how easily Hemingway turns a travelogue into a novel- something that is not easily done even by accomplished writers. The reader is taken along for the ride into the back country, far from any city or town, removed from the comforts of civilization- and endangered by neighboring warring tribes bent on capturing new territory and robbing anything they can get from hapless tourists. One is reminded of the travesties which have occurred in recent years to people travelling to these and other dangerous places around the world, where ruthless bandits have harmed and killed visitors in senseless acts of violence. In this book, you feel as if you're sitting there with Hemingway, waiting for the target to come into range... and knowing that your own life could be in danger.

"Under Kilimanjaro" is an interesting read- and a nice supplement to "The Green Hills of Africa" and also "True at First Light". In his final days, Hemingway often said in interviews that he had a cache of unpublished material which would support his wife and other heirs after he died. Well, his widow Mary Walsh died in 1986, 25 years after he committed suicide, but mankind is enriched and supported in our reading with this fine work.

-Gene Pisasale
Author, "Lafayette's Gold- The Lost Brandywine Treasure" and
"Vineyard Days"

Another version of "True at First Light"
Readers should be aware that this "last" book by Hemingway is not really new. In essence, it is just another version of the previous "last" Hemingway title, "True at First Light," published in 1999. Both are based on the same unfinished manuscript, but edited by different people & put out by different publishers - "True at First Light" was edited by Hemingway's son Patrick and published by Scribner. Of the 2 accounts, "Under Kilimanjaro" is significantly longer, clocking in at over 100 pages more than "First Light."

Under Kilamanjaro
My first Hemingway experience, ironically, his final work? Halfway through my 4th of his offerings at this time, I am inspired to read his entire catalogue. The characters were varied, rich and endearing. The settings, their "campi"(camp) and surrounding areas, warmly described. One could sense the congenial yet mildly tempestuous dynamic maintained between the various tribesman and the employees of the British colonists and Hemingway. A familiar, symbiotic relationship of convenience. Takes a little while to become acquainted with the characters and their surroundings because of the frequent Swahili based references, but this should not deter one from moving forward or beginning this novel. In time, this becomes a non issue and actually contributes to the unique flavor of this work. When my wife started to read this novel, I suggested that she take note of the glossary at the back. In retrospect, I would have done so after reading the introduction, prior to beginning chapter one and perhaps used it as an occasional guide throughout the reading. A thoroughly enjoyable visit to early 1950's East Africa with a unique individual.

Joe Jessome

A poor representation of a great man's skill
Hemingway left his memoirs of his African safari in a Havana bank vault.These memoirs were stored away as insurance for future publication.Hemingway had requested that these rough drafts never be published after his death.The Authors of this book should have respected his orders.
Under Kilimanjaro is an attempt to resurrect the ghost of Hemingway's great writing skills, and in so doing, it fails miserably.Part of Hemingway's trademark was to edit a work to its bare essentials.This book fails in this regard as well.
The plot essentially revolves around his wife's obsession to kill a lion.Her obsessive-compulsive temper tantrums are a common occurrence throughout the book.In other events, Hemingway is in a continues killing and drinking spree.There are, however,some entertaining moments, mainly when Hemingway's reflects on his past adventures in France and Spain.
In short this book should have been left in a vault in Havana. .For a more accurate account, one should read "the Snows of Kilimanjaro".Under Kilimanjaro amounts to apoor representation of a great man's skill.It is an attempt by his family to profit fromhis legacy by trying to resurrect his ghost.

Hemingways last hunt in Africa( aka True At First Light,re-edited)
I have always been skepticaljudging thebooks published after his death andwhether they really could be called Hemingway books since they wereunfinished and unsigned by the authorfor publication.If awriter writes a storyand that storyis unfinished and considered for that reason by the author to be unpublishable, can you really include it the canon of his works?Will his reputation be affected by it as these books have undoubtably affected Hemingways?Have they at least created a perception in the value of his workfrom beginning to end?The Old Man and the Sea was the last book he authorized for book publication and anything that waspublished after (his death) should be judged as a curiousity and not a finished work to base a reputation on. Under Kilimanjaro is awork in progress. It was first published in a shorter version and called True At First Light . It is not a great book but it isentertainingand an interesting curio to have and to read.Now lets see the "The Garden of Eden" without the cuts(if you are going to publish these manuscripts do it the right way!) and the letters being collected written bythe most influential literary stylist of the 20th century.Note added 08/2010; 1st vol of penn state letters project Vol 1 submitted andto be published next year. ... Read more

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A delightful surprise!
I had no expectations for this book. I was taking a chance, having an interest in Cuba and mysteries. The book is very engaging; it grabbed me from the first page, and my interest and appreciation increased with every page. Now I am anxious to read more by Padura Fuentes. It is a good story, very well told. Padura Fuentes is an exceptionally talented writer, and the English translation, in my view, is excellent. Contrary to other reviews, I don't think you have to be a Hemingway fan to appreciate this; I'm not. But I did learn a lot that was interesting about Hemingway. Both he and Conde, the fictional detective at the heart of this story, are complicated characters, with lots of faults but some admirable qualities.

Great feel contemporary and historic Cuba
There's no hiding Padura's actual affection for Hemingway. This is a work in which one terrific writer pays his respects to another. As a work of historical fiction it becomes clear that every scene, every word Padura presents us with is absolutely plausible. Padura really nails in in describing both the trajectory of Papa's life and relationships as well as the evolving relationship between the U.S. government and Cuba. On a visit there in the early eighties I found a widespread, genuine respect for the literature of Hemingway (as well as many others). If the U.S. ever honors our right to go there I recommend checking out the Hemingway public library as well as Hemingway's preserved and well maintained finca (farm). This book will fuel your desire for a road trip south...to Habana!

Adios Hemingway
I haven
't read the book yet but the quality of the book and the delivery of it was superb.

For Hemingway aficionados only
This mystery novel by a popular Cuban writer involves a dead body discovered on Hemingway's property (Finca Vigia) in Cuba. The hero, a retired police inspector, had once been a Hemingway fan but has become disillusioned about the famous writer for various reasons. The novel proceeds somewhat ploddingly as the inspector has to be persuaded to take the case; he then wanders around visting his old "colorful' friends and finally makes it to the Villa itself (now a museum. The novel takes place in the present. The body, recently exhumed, has been in the ground many years. Hemingway himself is presented in flashbacks). Even though he has been dead these many years, Hemingway becomes a suspect in the killing. The novel wanders to an end and features an amusing take on Ava Gardner's "knickers."
It's hard to tell if the novel is well written because the translation is execrable. One sample: "He went to the bathroom adjoining his bedroom and opened his flies." I gave it three stars because I am a Hemingway fan and the passages describing the great writer's last days in Cuba, his health problems , his relations with the natives were of interest.

Clever and enjoyable for those who appreciate Papa
The Cuban atmospherics and the Hemingwayesque mixture of facts and myths make for a quick uncomplicated mystery. Who would not want to know how Ava Gardner's black panties found their way into this tale? Or, would you not want to entertain a reason
why Papa hurriedly left the island to find his way to suicide in Ketchum, Idaho? Read it as fiction, enjoy it and let your mind wander to the possibilities. ... Read more

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In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, Lamb insightfully charts the evolution of the unique style and innovative techniques that would forever change the nature of short fiction.

Art Matters opens with an analysis of the authorial effacement Hemingway learned from Maupassant and Chekhov, followed by fresh perspectives on the author's famous use of concision and omission. Redefining literary impressionism and expressionism as alternative modes for depicting modern consciousness, Lamb demonstrates how Hemingway and Willa Cather learned these techniques from Crane and made them the foundation of their respective aesthetics. After examining the development of Hemingway's art of focalization, he clarifies what Hemingway really learned from Stein and delineates their different uses of repetition. Turning from techniques to formal elements, Art Matters anatomizes Hemingway's story openings and endings, analyzes how he created an entirely unprecedented role for fictional dialogue, explores his methods of characterization, and categorizes his settings in the fifty-three stories that comprise his most important work in the genre.

A major contribution to Hemingway scholarship and to the study of modernist fiction, Art Matters shows exactly how Hemingway's craft functions and argues persuasively for the importance of studies of articulated technique to any meaningful understanding of fiction and literary history. The book also develops vital new ways of understanding the short story genre as Lamb constructs a critical apparatus for analyzing the short story, introduces to a larger audience ideas taken from practicing storywriters, theorists, and critics, and coins new terms and concepts that enrich our understanding of the field.

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Utterly Compelling and Relentlessly Wise
I don't know how we managed to muddle through work as literary critics for so long without this book.

Lamb's is a dual study.First, it isolates Hemingway's short stories and drives to the center of their power: Hemingway's intense craftsmanship.Good writing does not emerge ex nihilo from the writer's exquisite imagination in a stroke of genius, Lamb reminds us, but through a process of self-conditioning, in the writer's case by reading carefully other craftspeople.Here Lamb tracks the development of Hemingway's much-celebrated use of concision and omission (recall EH's iceberg metaphor), and how Hemingway's technical skill as a crafter of sentences changed the face of fiction.Second, emerging from this first project by locating Hemingway's trajectory of influence and thinking carefully about what writers study in order to become writers, Lamb's book presents a new--and remarkable--study of the short story genre.Often neglected by the academy as throw-away literature (training wheels in order for the great writers to get to their novels, perhaps), or relegated to the classroom as merely convenient pedagogical tools, the short story remains largely absent from serious critical scrutiny.For Lamb, however, the short story operates as a wholly separate genre, operating within its own set of generic rules--and as such, requires a critical apparatus that acknowledges this difference.Drawing on the languages of the visual arts and critical theory, and reassessing some of our forgotten implements in the critic's toolchest, Lamb crafts a discourse with which we can now talk intelligibly about the short story that recuperates its place in the pantheon of genres, allowing it to stand along with the novel, the poem, and the play.

I could spend pages exploring the intelligence of Lamb's work.The text is so rich that to do so would be a disservice, though--how could I leave out any of the finer points that will reward readers of all critical dispositions?Most (if not all) will return again and again to Lamb's as a sourcebook about how to think about short fiction that pays off on each dip into its pages.

At the bottom of it, Lamb's book is accessible without being simplistic, and complex while being readable.He says early on that his goal has been to write for an intelligent general audience without alienating the literary critical establishment out there.In the first task he's succeeded remarkably; lay readers far and wide will find Lamb's analysis of Hemingway's terse, loaded prose opening up layer upon layer of nuance.In the second task, though, I wonder if he hasn't thrown down the gauntlet.Unlike some scholars who produce obscure tracts for only a small coterie of peers and acolytes in order to secure their places as "difficult" thinkers, Lamb wants to be understood, to give writers their due as craftspeople, to think hard about what short fiction does.And so he writes exactly what he means.Though he introduces a legion of imminently useful terms, he does so without seeming as though he is amusing himself.They are, after all, immediately applicable.In this way, "Art Matters" might rankle the literary establishment a bit at its unashamedly smart, clean prose.So much the better for all lovers of literature, I argue, let it rankle.Perhaps they'll feel embarrassed enough to try harder in their own craft.

Bless you, Robert Paul Lamb.I'll never read short fiction--or Hemingway--the same way again. ... Read more

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Provides a revealing and intimate portrait of one of the great writers of our century. ... Read more

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Not as in-depth as one would hope
This book is probably only for the die-hard Hemingway completest, although I believe it was a
best seller when it was first published in 1961. While it does have some information on Ernest
Hemingway that I have not seen elsewhere, it also skims over a lot of important events of which
one would think Leicester would have intimate knowledge.

For example, each of Ernest's divorces are barely mentioned. There are hints of trouble in the
various marriages, although rarely do any details emerge. We are just told that a particular
marriage ended and that Ernest subsequently remarried. Also rather maddening is the fact that
while the events are laid in chronological order, there are rarely any dates tied to many of the
referenced events.

It is also rather obvious that Leicester is avoiding a number of issues similar to the events
surrounding the divorces. He seems to race through the details of Ernest's last months, although
to his credit he does discuss the shock treatments. But he gives us no real insight into what was
troubling Ernest. Is this because he has no intimate knowledge of that period or because he is
trying to protect his brother's legacy in some way? Or was it case of trying to avoid potential
lawsuits, since many of the people mentioned in the book were still alive when it was first
published?

Some of the passages in the book are very confusing, particularly a few where Leicester is
recounting conversations. Either they had some kind of code between themselves that we are left
to decipher or, for all his brilliance as a writer, Ernest was not much of a conversationalist (which
kind of flies in the face of all the entertaining and partying he did throughout his life).

It is also unclear, perhaps deliberately so since the book is about Ernest, as to what successes
Leicester had in trying to follow in his famous brother's footsteps. There are references to Ernest
reviewing Leicester's attempts at writing, but nothing to indicate if Leicester ever published
anything beyond this book. This may be because the book is focused on Ernest, rather than
Leicester, but it would be nice to know what successes Leicester may or may not have had.

None of the above should dissuade the Hemingway fan from reading the book.I did enjoy
reading the book, but it is almost maddening in the number of details that are left out. Leicester
just kind of leaves you asking for more.

Not as in-depth as one would hope
This book is probably only for the die-hard Hemingway completest, although I believe it was a
best seller when it was first published in 1962. While it does have some information on Ernest
Hemingway that I have not seen elsewhere, it also skims over a lot of important events of which
one would think Leicester would have intimate knowledge.

For example, each of Ernest's divorces are barely mentioned. There are hints of trouble in the
various marriages, although rarely do any details emerge. We are just told that a particular
marriage ended and that Ernest subsequently remarried. Also rather maddening is the fact that
while the events are laid in chronological order, there are rarely any dates tied to many of the
referenced events.

It is also rather obvious that Leicester is avoiding a number of issues similar to the events
surrounding the divorces. He seems to race through the details of Ernest's last months, although
to his credit he does discuss the shock treatments. But he gives us no real insight into what was
troubling Ernest. Is this because he has no intimate knowledge of that period or because he is
trying to protect his brother's legacy in some way? Or was it case of trying to avoid potential
lawsuits, since many of the people mentioned in the book were still alive when it was first
published?

Some of the passages in the book are very confusing, particularly a few where Leicester is
recounting conversations. Either they had some kind of code between themselves that we are left
to decipher or, for all his brilliance as a writer, Ernest was not much of a conversationalist (which
kind of flies in the face of all the entertaining and partying he did throughout his life).

It is also unclear, perhaps deliberately so since the book is about Ernest, as to what successes
Leicester had in trying to follow in his famous brother's footsteps. There are references to Ernest
reviewing Leicester's attempts at writing, but nothing to indicate if Leicester ever published
anything beyond this book. This may be because the book is focused on Ernest, rather than
Leicester, but it would be nice to know what successes Leicester may or may not have had.

None of the above should dissuade the Hemingway fan from reading the book.I did enjoy
reading the book, but it is almost maddening in the number of details that are left out. Leicester
just kind of leaves you asking for more.

not well written
sad to admit, hard to say--but not well written at all. truth is ernest was the only writer in the family. what can you do? it still may be worth reading to some in order to get his younger brother's perspective on things, etc.

My Brother, Ernest Hemingway
This is an excellent book.It allows you to see a side of Hemingway that you never had just from reading his beautifully written books.

A fine and readable biography of his brother
This was the first full length biography of Ernest Hemingway. His brother, Les, was aware of Ernest's mental and physical problems and that he didn't want any biographies written about him during his lifetime. When Ernestshot and killed himself in the summer of 1961, Les had this book ready togo to the publisher. Leicester was a fine writer and as a man was a lifebringer who always raised the spirits of his companions. This quality canbe felt in his book. It is quite well written and offers a glimpse into thelife of an enormously complicated man who was also a dedicated artist. AndLes's biography remains a very fine introduction to his brother's life, oneof our greatest American writers. ... Read more

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The fully-lived, yet tragically ended life of Ernest Hemingway has attracted nearly as much attention as his extensive canon of writings. This critical study introduces students to both the man and his fiction, exploring how Hemingway confronted in his own life the same moral issues that would later create thematic conflicts for the characters in his novels. In addition to the biographical chapter which focuses on the pivotal events in Hemingway's personal life, a literary heritage chapter overviews his professional developments, relating his distinctive style to his early years as a journalist. With clear concise analysis, students are guided through all of Hemingway's major works including The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Full chapters are also devoted to examining his collections of short fiction, the African Stories, and the posthumous works. ... Read more

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Walks in Hemingway's Paris is the perfect companion to the most romantic and fascinating of cities for those who want to experience Paris beyond the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Covering all the area of Paris that Hemingway and his fellow expatriates once roamed from Left Bank to Right, Noel Riley Fitch provides an intimate visit to major Parisian landmarks as well as to out-of-the-way cafes, hotels and residences immortalized by "Papa" and his friends.
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Paris in Hemingway's footsteps
I took this book to Paris and went to every single place mentioned.It was easy to use and fun to read and made me love Paris (and Hemingway) even more.

Insightful Guide
Hemingway fans will adore this book, but for anyone interested in literary and artistic Paris, this exceptional guidebook will also lead you to the haunts of such luminaries as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, e. e. cummings, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Author Fitch includes a helpful introduction to Paris, followed by an insightful introduction to Hemingway's Paris.Seven self-guided tours contain detailed commentaries for each stop along the route. The best of the itineraries take you along the Seine, through the Latin Quarter and around the Luxemburg gardens, which are the most pleasant places to walk in Paris anyway. Even though it's easy to get lost in the maze of short and angled streets of Paris, clear, good-sized maps throughout the book keep you oriented. Nearly fifty black-and-white photographs, many of them historic, evoke the ambience of Paris in the 1920s. Photos include Sylvia Beach in her Shakespeare and Company bookstore; Scott, Zelda and Scottie Fitzgerald celebrating Christmas in their apartment on rue de Tilsitt; a wicked cartoon of James Joyce drawn by Fitzgerald in 1928; and, of course, Hemingway. A detailed index helps you find information about places and people.

After loosely following Tour Two through the Saint Germain neighborhood, my daughter Anne and I had morning coffee and pastries at the Cafe de Flore, Anne scribbling away in her journal.When I teasingly asked the waiter how Hemingway, and later the Existentialist writers who haunted the Cafe de Flore in the 40s and 50s, managed to get any writing done on the tiny, round tables barely large enough to hold a plate, he teased me back by pushing two of the tables together so I had plenty of room to pen my immortal postcards.But unless money is no object, it's too expensive to order much more than coffee at the famous Left Bank hangouts of Hemingway and his expatriate cohorts.On Rue de Buci and Rue de Abbaye in the Saint Germain neighborhood, close to Hemingway's Cafe de Flore and Les Deux Magots, you'll find less expensive, less pretentious cafes where you can order a great bowl of French onion soup.

Fail-proof walks, great Hemingway quotes
After two important introductory chapters, the seven walks take the reader or tourist to every Hemingway (and Fitzgerald) site in Paris.These walks were tried/previewed by many classes of students at the American University of Paris.Although a few details date the book, it holds up today!The walks, by the way, include wonderful quotations from many of Hemingway's novels, short stories, and his memoir of Paris.Buy the book and come to Paris!! ... Read more

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A Bright New Perspective on Hemingway for a Casual Reader
After reading The Sun Also Rises, I was given a copy of this book by a friend to "browse through." But when I started browsing, its down-to-earth style and wide breadth of knowledge in uncovering Hemingway's icebergs had me reading the book cover to cover. Not only is the prose captivating but the edition includes maps of Paris, pictures of locations in the novel--all kinds of great stuff that enlighten a reading of The Sun Also Rises. Highly recommended!

Read This Book
I've always loved The Sun Also Rises, but this book opened my eyes to all the reasons why I love the book. It is an instructive, amiable, mindbogglingly-informed commentary/glossary written with an ease rarely seen in critical work. Definitely the most intelligent, complete and expansive work I've seen on any Hemingway text. This book is necessary to all students of American literature.

Epiphany: Revealing Hemingway's "dignity of movement."
One of the best things about reading Hemingway is that he writes in a way that appeals to both the common reader and the serious scholar.With this masterpiece, H. R. Stoneback achieves the same sensibility.First time readers will be awed by the "dignity of movement" they find in
Stoneback's commanding and systematic explication of The Sun Also Rises.Even more, the depth of Stoneback's analysis sets a standard that will be the benchmark for studies of TSAR.But one of the best things about this book is Stoneback's writing.Right from the beginning of the book he manages to write in a way that illuminates.When I read the first section "Titles" from "Front Matters" I knew I was in for a treat.The book has a measured pace that seems to constantly build towards epiphany, which proves to be an extremely rewarding experience for the reader.

The Sun
The inaugural volume in the Reading Hemingway series from Kent State University Press, this book is a mandatory companion to Hemingway's novel.Stoneback's exactitude gives the book its backbone.It should put to rest all poorly-informed readings of SAR.Buy two copies.Buy three.Use it in the classroom.Give it to people who don't get Hemingway.Give it to people who think Hemingway's work takes place in a violent and meaningless world.Give it to people who have a deep appreciation for the spirit of place.

A Must Have
This book is necessary for any serious Hemingway scholar, but because it is not written with incomprehensible jargon, it is accessible to anyone interested in The Sun Also Rises and/or Hemingway.The book is simply invaluable. ... Read more

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The volume of collected short stories and vignettes In Our Time was Ernest Hemingway's first commercial publication. Its appearance in 1925 launched the full-fledged literary career of this century's most famous American fiction writer. And while other later works of Hemingway have eclipsed In Our Time's fame, none of Hemingway's subsequent works would again carry the degree of experimentation found in this distinctly modernist masterwork. Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time: A Guide for Students and Readers is a well-paced, lucidly written handbook intended to guide university students and teaching faculty towards a better understanding of this complex work. It provides a reading of each story and vignette, while simultaneously stressing the status of In Our Time as a discrete volume. Included are discussions of the book's biographical and historical background, and considerations of Hemingway's prose style, theories of writing, formal achievements, his literary mentors and influences, and the relation between In Our Time and his later works. ... Read more

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Readable, enjoyable, helpful
I always liked Hemingway's work, including many of the stories in In Our Time.Hemingway is much deeper than some might think, and I always thought I was missing a good deal especially in his short stories.This book helped me to understand the relationships between the stories and the little vignettes.It also discussed historical background that was interesting, and it pointed out elements of the stories that I had not thought of.It helped me to see many things that were going on in the stories, some of which I sensed were there but couldn't put my finger on exactly.I read this book because I am interested in Hemingway.I also think students and teachers would find it helpful.Some teachers keep teaching Hemingway the same old way, and this book would help them with new ideas.This is not stuffy academic criticism, but a creative work in which the author communicates interesting ideas in a clear way with his reader. ... Read more

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In Hemingway's Fetishism, Carl Eby demonstrates in painstaking detail and with stunning new archival evidence how fetishism was crucial to the construction and negotiation of identity and gender in both Hemingway's life and his fiction. Critics have long acknowledged Hemingway's lifelong erotic obsession with hair, but this book is the first to explain in a theoretically coherent manner why Hemingway was a fetishist and why we should care. Without reducing Hemingway's art to his psychosexuality, Eby demonstrates that when the fetish appears in Hemingway's fiction, it always does so with a retinue of attendant fantasies, themes, and symbols that are among the most prominent and important in Hemingway's work. ... Read more

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"bold ... daring ...--a persuasive and even a moving book"
"Carl Eby's _Hemingway's Fetishism_ ... is a bold book, a daring book--a persuasive and even a moving book....Eby attempts nothing less than a complete reinterpretation of Hemingway's life and work in thecontext of his basic hypothesis....

The heart of Eby's project resides inhis effort to give a synthetic account of Hemingway's fascination withhair.Eby is not, of course, the first to notice this preoccupation.Buthe is the first to try to understand its full psychological complexity, aswell as to trace the substitutive logic by which Hemingway moves frommeditations on hair to, say, fantasies about cats, the actual slaughter ofrabbits, dreams about lions, a desire for pierced ears, and a wish for thedark pigmentation of racially marked skin.For Eby, each of theserepresents a displaced version of the primal fetish, hair.His book setsout to explore this proposition by showing, first, _that_ Hemingway was afetishist and _how_ he came to be one; and second, why it was that hair inparticular became his fetish of choice....

Eby makes [his] theoreticalargument cumulatively over several chapters.He draws not only on Freud'sclassic work, but on more recent theories by Joyce McDougall, PhyllisGreenacre, George Zavitzianos, D. W. Winnicott, and especially, RobertStoller.In doing so, he makes provocative claims about the relationsbetween fetishism, melancholia, and transvestism; about the tendency ofmale perversions to bolster conventional masculinity, despite appearing toundermine it; about the inverse relation between artistic creativity andfetishistic fixation; and about the fetish object's link to what Winnicottcalls the 'transitional object.'

But more impressive than thistheoretical sophistication is Eby's firm commitment to the expressivecharacter of literature--to the proposition that literature offerspsychological insights that are multifaceted and theoretically irreducible. His readings seek to grant Hemingway's works their idiosyncratic forms ofknowledge.He does not, accordingly, merely use fetishism as a lensthrough which to read Hemingway's texts, but interprets Hemingway's fictionin a way that illuminates and renders more complex our understanding of thepsychology of fetishism."

--Greg Forter, _The Hemingway Review_

"...a scholarly book that reads like a detective mystery."
"Eby's knowledge of psychoanalytic and gender theory is extraordinary; in addition he has read all of Hemingway's published and unpublished writings....Indeed, he seems to have a concordance-likememory of Hemingway's every word....

The book offers for the firsttime a theoretically sophisticated and comprehensive study of Hemingway'sgender instability, erotic attachment to hair, narcissism, latenthomosexuality, castration anxiety, and split toward women....Hemingway'sFetishism is an extraordinary book ... written with verve, wit, and goodhumor.[Eby] is always self-critical of his methodology and suggests otherexplanations for the ones he provides, thus convincing us that he can see avariety of critical perspectives.Eby demythologizes Hemingway withoutdehumanizing him or dismissing him, and despite his heavy reliance uponpsychoanalytic theory, he avoids the language of psychobabble.He alsoavoids pathography, arguing instead that the childhood events that damagedHemingway's psyche may have contributed to his ability to identify withothers.It is doubtful that any study published in the next few years onHemingway will be as insightful and controversial as this one.

--JeffreyBerman, Psychoanalytic Books ... Read more

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a `must read' for anyone wanting to know more about one of the great writer's of

Rene Villarreal was Ernest Hemingway's major domo, his butler,his personal assistant for many years at the Finca Vigia, the writer's home near Havana in Cuba.In her autobiography THE WAY IT WAS, Mary Hemingway, Ernest's wife, describes Rene as 'quiet, and well-mannered' a man who worked with 'goodwill and devotion'.And that is the way Villarreal comes across in this memoir, as a man who could be trusted to keep a secret, the consummate gentleman.
Now, in his late 70's, Rene Villarreal's memory is clear as a bell and his description of life with Hemingway is unique and humorous, personal, at times, and honest.
Somewhere along the way he picked up Papa's skill as a storyteller.With his son Raul as editor and interpreter,he describes daily life at the Finca Vigia...hearing Ernest wake in the bedroom above his quarters in the basement, going upstairs to prepare breakfast, counting repetitions while Hemingway did his morning exercises, and performing his most important duty...ensuring Papa was not disturbed when he was writing.
There are stories about the cats and dogs that roamed the house and grounds; the neighbourhood children sneaking over the fence to watch actress Ava Gabor swimming nude in the big pool.Ernest's volatile temper and stormy relationship with his wife, Rene often the mediator.
And there is the revelation of Rene's intimate and secret relationship with Adriana Ivancich, the teenager from an aristocratic Italian family with whom Hemingway had become infatuated. But it was Rene with whom Adriana chose to share intimacy
As Rene described it,'She was beautiful and her lips were sweet.Shefelt like heaven.'(what a tactful choice of words)
The lovers would 'rendezvous late at night by the pool after everyone had gone tobed', including Ernest, especially Ernest, and 'stay out until the early morning hours when they would quietly make their way back to their rooms'.

Ernest never asked and Rene never confessed.
Here is what Rene had to say about it...

"I loved him(EH)like a father, and I knew how he felt about Adriana.But what happened between us just happened."

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Includes a 2-hour walking tour of Key West, plus a tour of Hemingway’s favorite places in Cuba

The only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho persona as Papa, the biggest Big Daddy of them all.

This vivid portrait of Ernest Hemingway’s Key West reveals both Hemingway, the writer, and Hemingway, the macho, hard-drinking sportsman. His Key West years turned out to be his most productive: he finished A Farewell to Arms, started For Whom the Bell Tolls, and wrote several other books, including Green Hills of Africa, Death in the Afternoon, and To Have and Have Not. He also turned out some of his best short stories. There was plenty of time left over for eating, drinking, fighting, fishing, chasing women, and hanging out with "the Mob." On the two-hour walking tour, you will explore his favorite Key West haunts.

This updated edition also details the author’s exploits in Bimini and Cuba. Hemingway spent the last years of his life in Cuba, and it was here he overcame several demons—accidents, failing health, depression—to write The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize in Literature. Tour his top Cuban hangouts. ... Read more

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Not what I expected
Referredby author and friend John Dos Passos as just the place for "ole Hem...to dry out his bones" after spending another brutally cold, wet winter in Paris's Left Bank, Ernest Hemingway and pregnant second wife Pauline landed in Key West in the spring of 1928.It was just supposed to be vacation stop before traveling to north to Pauline's ancestral home in Arkansas to give birth to their first child. But a delay in the arrival of the yellow Model A Ford roadster (a wedding gift from Pauline's wealthy uncle Gus) gave the author the time to fall in love with the small town that he dubbed the "St. Tropez of the Poor." For the next decade Ernest Hemingway would write, fish, drink, and end his second marriage in this island town. And Key West would remain his most productive work environment on American soil.Among the palm fronds, bougainvillea, hibiscus, oleander and other tropical foliage outside his studio on the second floor carriage house Hemingway completed such works asA Farewell To Arms, Death in The Afternoon, Winner Take Nothing, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Short Life of Francis Macomber, and his Key West novel To Have And Have Not.

Florida historian and author Stuart McIver title promises the reader an adventure, but delivers a hodge-podge non cohesive book about Hemingway or of Key West during the time the great author lived there.Why was this decade Ernest Hemingway's most productive? What was the "it" Key West possessed that Ernest found his words flowing at around a 7 pencil day rate? Why Papa got on well and kept his Key West friends (the Mob) as life-long friends but lost many of the "out of town talent" mob members?How his marriage and later his divorce to Pauline changed the townspeople from supporting him to support Pauline, thusly diminishing slightly some important lifelong relationships to his "Key West Mob"?McIver fails to answer these questions adequately or he fails to answer these questions and repeats facts and events from other chapters. Also McIver glosses over two cataclysmic events that had profane effects on the great author: the Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and the meeting and subsequent affair with Martha Gellhorn whom eventually became Ernest's third wife.

I found the chapters on Hemingway's beloved boat Pilar (named for the daughter he desperately wanted but could never have) and his deep sea fishing very enlightening as well as the Walking tour of Papa's Key West, but the chapters on Cuba and the Key West of today didn't really enhance or fulfill the promise the author gives the reader: full answers as to why Hemingway loved Key West and was the most productive in that island city and his relationships he developed there. As a Florida resident many of anecdotal stories told in this short volume are widely known and probably to the Hemingway aficionado.

Read It Before You Go
Hemingway's Key West provide a quick, interesting read for those traveling to Key West. The island's atmosphere and history twinkles like a Hemingway smile. And the reader gets quick but enlightening peeks at Hemingway's temper, his wives, his buddies (The Mob) and his fishing techniques.

Not for the library-bound scholar, this book treats the reader to the highlights of Key West and Hemingway. You'll get in-depth descriptions of his haunts. You'll find out tidbits about his life (a converted Catholic, a sometimes vindictive right-wing Republican, and a man willing to begin various love affairs instantly).

Overall, a fine read.

by Larry Rochelle, author of the hurricane thriller, GULF GHOST

Unbelievably bad
I think a freshman in high school could've written a more cohesive book.The author repeats the same thing just about every chapter.The book probably contains a magazine article in information, if you can find it.It boggles my mind that this was printed, obviously no one edited it.

History & literature neatly combined
Stuart McIver's HEMINGWAY'S KEY WEST is a classic example of history and literature neatly combined. McIver intends to just describe Hemingway's life in Key West, however, he also tells a lot about Hemingway as a family man (a role which Hemingway did not play well) and as a writer. His description of Hemingway's life and actions in Key West is done so well that it helps the reader picture himself in Key West at the time Hemingway lived there himself. McIver also does a splendid job in describing how Hemingway influenced Key West beyond the time he lived there. I have been to Key West twice, and on both occasions, I visited Sloppy Joe's Bar which is full of "Hemingway paraphernalia" - when you are at Sloppy Joe's, it is as if Hemingway were right there with you.

I've read better high school research papers.
Although this work is informative for anyone going to Key West to visit Hemingway sites, McIver's book reads like a confused hodgepodge.This would not be a problem if the chapters addressed Heminway's time in the Keys chronologically.However, the facts seem to skip around.Many chapters repeat events addressed earlier in other chapters making it appear as if each one was written by a different author without the benefit of reading each others's work, and then combined into one book.McIver's research on Hemingway seems to be of quick, incomplete work with sources easily obtained and poorly investigated. ... Read more

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Questa è una biografia particolare di Hemingway: i viaggi, gli amori, ma soprattutto i suoi gusti nel mangiare e nel bere. Le ricette di alcuni dei piatti deliziosi che accompagnarono i suoi personaggi letterari e lui stesso porteranno la sua memoria di nuovo in vita e dentro le nostre cucine. E non poteva certo mancare un capitolo dedicato ai suoi cocktail preferiti! ... Read more