Live to write it. That could be a maxim of this great writer of the XNUMXth century. Ernest Hemingway He was a restless spirit who liked to live life in long drinks, in all its edges and possibilities. From Hemingway's handwriting, the most transcendental fictions of so many world events of that turbulent century were forged XX that passed between wars, revolutions, great inventions, cold wars and a first sign of globalization and knowledge of the cosmos in a space race that is still in progress today.
It is not that Hemingway is a universal chronicler of everything that happened in his twentieth century, but what is undoubted is that the reflection of his characters immersed in all kinds of situations make him a successful narrator in a fictional key of that passing of the human being for this world.
Highlight your three recommended novelsConsidering its narrative involvement with the Spanish Civil War, it can be considered conditioned on my part, but it is what it has to say, we are all free from it. So my three essential Hemingway books are…
Top 3 recommended novels by Ernest Hemingway
For whom the Bell Tolls
Besides being a story based on the Spanish Civil War, one of my favorite groups, Metallica, ended up writing a song based on this title: For whom the bell tolls, so first place was assured.
In the thick pine forests of a Spanish mountainous region, a group of militiamen prepares to blow up an essential bridge for the republican offensive.
The action will cut off road communications and prevent the rebels from counterattacking. Robert Jordan, a young volunteer from the International Brigades, is the expert dynamiter who has come to Spain to carry out this mission.
In the mountains you will discover the dangers and intense camaraderie of war. And he will also discover María, a young woman rescued by the militiamen from the hands of Franco's rebellious forces, with whom he will immediately fall in love.
The old man and the sea
Internationally it is his most recognized work. 1953 Pulitzer Prize for novels. The old man as a metaphor for the strenuous struggle of the human being. Anyone can be reflected in that fight. It is not a question of classes, nor of money.
This plot above all things tells us of overcoming or falling, of exterior and interior storms, of miseries and temptations, of perdition and hope.
A moving work that offers us the violence of existing in a hostile environment, inviting us to leave all our strength before offering ourselves to defeat.
Hemingway illuminated a story in whose simplicity an inexhaustible emotion vibrates: in Cuba, an old fisherman, already in the twilight of his life, poor and without luck, tired of returning every day without fishing, undertakes one last and risky journey. When you finally find a great piece, you will have to fight it hard.
And the return to port, harassed by the elements and sharks, becomes a last test. Like a beggar king, haloed by his unbeatable dignity, the old fisherman finally culminates his destiny.
The garden of Eden
A mysterious work, built by Hemingway without knowing very well how. A novel that was not published until his death and that hides his perspective on love.
The conception and writing of The Garden of Eden began in 1946, contemporaneous with other novels that were released while the author was alive, such as The Old Man and the Sea or Paris Was a Party.
But it didn't hit the presses until twenty-five years after Hemingway's death. It is, therefore, a posthumous work, although completed in life, that deals, with a profound interpretation, great imagination and lively prose, about the complexity of love and artistic creation through an atypical love triangle between the protagonist, David Bourne, his wife Catherine and a young woman that Catherine herself places in her husband's path.
It is not exactly an autobiographical novel, although the protagonist is an American writer who is beginning to welcome success, nor is it a novel about an atypical love triangle.
It is, rather, the revelation of the tenderness and vulnerability that Hemingway, as a human being, concealed behind his public image; the bitter explanation of the main characteristics of the artist and the price he has to pay to maintain his vocation; and the birth of one of the author's most accomplished and complex heroines: Catherine Bourne.
ჰემინგუეი ძაან დიდი მწერალი იყო. მან დიდი გავლენა მოახდინა მეოცე საუკუნის მსო ფლიო ლიტერატურაზე. ძაან ფაქიზი აღწერა აქვს ყველაფრის და თავისებ ური იუმორი აქვს როგორც ნოდარ დუმბაძეს, რომლის იუმორი გძირავს ოცნებები და ადამიანური იუმორი აქვს. ჰემინგუეი მართლა მაგარი კაცი იყო. ყველა მისი ნაწარმოები ძალიან მიყვარს. რავიცი უდიდესი მწერალია.