среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

From the master, less is legendary

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway The Finca VigiaEdition. Scribners. $22.50

Before the legends there were the sentences. Ernest Hemingway'sfirst books - 3 Stories and 10 Poems and in our time, published inParis in 1923 and 1924 - proclaimed the arrival of a prose master.These slim volumes attracted extraordinary admiration because he haddeveloped an understated style and controlled tone that permitted himto achieve loaded accuracy and complex simplicity. Hemingway'scareer came out of his apprenticeship in short forms.

In his 1938 preface to The First 49 Stories Hemingway statedthat he "would like to live long enough" to write 25 more stories.He died in …

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