The Afrikan Stories - The Snows of Kilimanjaro - The Short Happy Live of Francis Macomber. Interpretationshilfe
by Ernest Hemingway
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(first published 1961)
by Langenscheidt-Longman
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Broschiert, 72 pages
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3526792194
(isbn13: 9783526792192)
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Anyone looking for a good entry way into Hemingway need look no farther. This basically acts as an unofficial greatest hits. Not only do you get the wonderful and surprisingly vunerable (tho kinda misogynistic) title story, a quiet meditation on death and wasted potential. But you also get A Clean Well Lighted Place considered the greatest short story ever written by none other then James friggin Joyce, and most of the best Nick Adam's stories as well, including The Killers, Fathers and Sons, an...more
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Read in April, 2008
For some strange reason, I was surprised that I liked this book. I had never had much interest in reading his short stories, mostly because I think that the short story as a medium is very hard to do well, and I have to admit that I didn't feel he was up to it.
Most of the stories are, as you might expect, about men being real men, resignedly keeping their emotions inside or dying brave deaths, which I must admit is something that Hemingway does very well. However, my favorite stories from t...more
Most of the stories are, as you might expect, about men being real men, resignedly keeping their emotions inside or dying brave deaths, which I must admit is something that Hemingway does very well. However, my favorite stories from t...more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
Hemingway neophytes
Perhaps this is heresy but... I just don't find Hemingway's work to be all that interesting. It just seems like macho tough guy bullshit and maybe-just-maybe there is something humanized and vulnerable deep down in there but I'm not so sure.
Were we talking about mortality?
Were we talking about mortality?
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men who are men
sometimes you just have to be hungry/punch someone in the mouth/fuck the girl/force her to have the abortion/die of malaria.
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Read in March, 1994
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General reader
A very good introduction to Hemingway, probably the book I would tell non-Hemingway explorers to begin with. It gives an excellent sample of his different pallettes and one particular Africa story is such a twist and sudden ending that it I found it an instant reread. If a reader delves in this collection and doesn't find it interesting they can skip to another story, by then if Hemingway's style has not captured your tastes then you can write off any more of his works as they do not deviate fro...more
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"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is my very favorite short story of all time. I read it shortly after my first wife left and my spirit resonated with that of the protagonist. Hemingway was well ahead of his time in understanding the American Man-boy phenomenon that has crippled the male population of our country. This is a coming of age story with a message of triumph, even in the face of death.
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Read in June, 2008
I rarely read passages out loud to my husband simply because they captivate me. Several times I did so in this short little collection of stories. I'm looking forward to reading more of Hemingway.
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Read in July, 2008
Hemingway is the masculine master of the short story. Terse and gruff, these are memorable stories ranging in subject from boxing and hunting to hospital patients. The women in these stories are a bit one-dimensional, generally described in terms of their level of attractiveness and usually not to be trusted. However, these stories are primarily about males, and for that they are complex, understated, and often funny if only in a somewhat cynical way. Fathers and sons, weak and strong, wealthy a...more
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i guess i'm one of those people who thinks hemingway was at his best writing short stories. his matter-of-fact prose leaves you a little bit cold by the end of most of the novels, but it seems to work a lot better in the short stories. i love the mini-portraits of life in different places and at different times that you can find in these. maybe it's because i read into what isn't being said, which is harder to do in a more developed narrative, but i think it might just be that somehow there's...more
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داستان خوش ساختی ست که در فارسی یک بار در 1336 توسط شجاع الدین شفا و یک بار در 1352 توس جواد شمس به فارسی برگردانده شده است.
As much as Twin is American, Hemingway is un-American. He is the most famous narrator of "loosers but proud". He came to literature world with Nick Adams (In our Time), lived as Nick lived and died as Nick would die! Laconic but efficient, compendious but moving. Wishing for ...more
As much as Twin is American, Hemingway is un-American. He is the most famous narrator of "loosers but proud". He came to literature world with Nick Adams (In our Time), lived as Nick lived and died as Nick would die! Laconic but efficient, compendious but moving. Wishing for ...more
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Read in September, 2008
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Dreamers
Snows was so short but packed with such sentiment, like a good haiku. Why would a leopard, like a man, venture into a hostile realm on her own accord, with observably no obvious gain in sight? Snows does not attempt to answer that, nor is this even the sole point of this dense, yet short, story. It's simply what I've taken home with me, long after this collection of tiny jems has been re–endowed to the local library, these impressions have yet to lose luster.
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With "Francis Macomber" and "Snows" you get Hemingway at his finest. Really a master.
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Issue gender-nya kental banget.. walau kemasan penulisannya bagus...
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Sadly many of these stories have been extracted and used in sophomore HS English classes as some introduction to short story writing. These stories, in particular the title tale, deserve a better fate than crude photocopying and bored students' smiley faces in the margins. My advice: read the stories as if they were a novel. Read them through and appreciate the less-acknowledged versatility of our Hemingway, our American treasure who is more than a man who killed himself in an interesting way...more
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Almost as good as the Nick Adams stories, well probably better but somehow for me Nick Adams captured the essence of my wandering soul. Anyway, this is supposed to be a review of Kilimanjaro. As has been said time and time again, Hemingway was the master of the short story. This collection represents some of his finest work. I know that most of us had to "endure" Hemingway in HS english. Even if you vowed never to pick up another Hemingway story again, I would eat your words and give t...more
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