In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
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I recently read about the end of Ernest Hemingway. The passage of time allows us to delve into the most lurid details of the myth, including his suicide. According to the testimony of someone close to him, the author got up one morning, put on his red robe of the emperor of his house, rescued from its hiding place the key that housed his weapons and with the most theatrical paraphernalia of death, ended up shooting himself with the weapon resting on the ground as he settled on his particular throne out of nowhere.

When presenting this reissue, I have remembered this detail revealed very recently, an exit from the scene typical of an intense character who one day discovered that he no longer wanted to move on. This book, his first volume of short stories, starts from the other extreme, from the fervent literary beginnings in which he was already aiming for the highest since his early twenties.

And today, considering that range between the beginning and the end of the writer, we can understand that Hemingway emptied himself completely equally, between his literature and his intense way of life.

"In Our Time" reflects the world of 1925 with that revision that makes every story. Some stories that extract a particular flavor of a metaphorical chronicle from the youth of those days that already brought aromas of defeat and conflict, in a world still shaken by the effects of a Great War in which he himself had participated in the Italian front as a driver. ambulance.

So we find an unpublished book in Spain, and that really summarizes a lot and good of the thriving writer who treasures vehemence with the support of a crude reality that he himself decided to know first-hand. An edition that is a necessary approach for all those convinced readers of the American genius who found in Spain an intense refuge of color, life, lights and shadows.

All the stories in the volume are linked to make special emphasis on the metaphorical message of the story, on the fable passed through the sieve of reality, in an impossible mixture for any author except for a Hemingway who in those first narrations seemed to want to chronicle of first years of youth peppered with reminiscences of the forever lost paradise of childhood.

Youth is always energy generated by the sparks of happiness. And stories by a twenty-year-old Hemingway such as "Out of season" "The river of hearts" or "Cat in the rain" give a good example of that energy oriented towards an explanation of the world, an explanation in the first instance for the author who needs to discover the world and as a derivative a colorful transformation for the reader captivated by scenarios, ideas, color, tensions, buried drives and life.

You can now buy the book «In our time», Hemingway's debut, here:

In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
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