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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story set in Africa. It was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
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Very interesting. Very catchy.
One can't stop reading it until it meets its end.
Francis Macomber is married to Margot Macomber who accompanies him on a Safari trip guided by the macho man Robert Wilson, the hunter.
The trip is about hunting. A typical Hemingway theme to propose the strength or weakness of a man.
The narrative is amazing and one has to read between the lines to figure out the feelings and to draw the complete portrait of the story.
Hemingway's writings are too good to be reviewed, a...more
One can't stop reading it until it meets its end.
Francis Macomber is married to Margot Macomber who accompanies him on a Safari trip guided by the macho man Robert Wilson, the hunter.
The trip is about hunting. A typical Hemingway theme to propose the strength or weakness of a man.
The narrative is amazing and one has to read between the lines to figure out the feelings and to draw the complete portrait of the story.
Hemingway's writings are too good to be reviewed, a...more
I read an (excellent) essay once on the way that Margot somehow manages to be a feminist figure in this highly masculinist tale, with its rugged Robert Wilson and its titular "short happy life" having Francis Macomber, Man. I don't remember the argument, really. Just that there's an essay out there about this story.
One of my favorite sentences (other than the very last one, which is also a good 'un):
'"Why not let up on the bitchery just a little, Margot," Macomber said...'
One of my favorite sentences (other than the very last one, which is also a good 'un):
'"Why not let up on the bitchery just a little, Margot," Macomber said...'
«Mi mojito en La Bodeguita, mi daiquiri en El Floridita»
Doveva essere il mio tentativo di riconciliazione con Hemingway, riconciliazione parzialmente avvenuta.
Cioè, diciamo che almeno ci siamo guardati negli occhi e che io mi sono fermata ad ascoltarlo.
Chissà perché, però, poi non ho mai scritto un commento, ma mi era piaciuto, sì, mi era piaciuto davvero.
Ernest caro, il prossimo mojito sarà quello della riconciliazione definitiva, ne sono sicura!
(Ma anche con un daiquiri andrà benissimo lo ste...more
Doveva essere il mio tentativo di riconciliazione con Hemingway, riconciliazione parzialmente avvenuta.
Cioè, diciamo che almeno ci siamo guardati negli occhi e che io mi sono fermata ad ascoltarlo.
Chissà perché, però, poi non ho mai scritto un commento, ma mi era piaciuto, sì, mi era piaciuto davvero.
Ernest caro, il prossimo mojito sarà quello della riconciliazione definitiva, ne sono sicura!
(Ma anche con un daiquiri andrà benissimo lo ste...more
This was really interesting. I liked the strong female character of Margot, which is very rare in a Hemingway story, and I loved how the plot built up to the ending. I really did like how this one ends, but its definately not a happy ending.
Thought provoking, my teacher loves Hemingway so we've begun reading some of his short-stories--this was good, I guess I'm just more of a science fiction fan.
Read this during my last year of high school. My teacher loved Ernest Hemingway's stuff. I found some of his works alright, but particularly enjoyed this short story.
Kind of weird and took a while to get into, but really good! My only complaint is that the copy I was reading had typos every. single. sentence!
I've been disappointed with the endings of some of Hemingway's short stories, but not this one. Great imagery and a great triangle of characters.
Classic Hemingway, big game hunting in Africa with a cast of three characters, a woman, a man and a real man.
rating is only for this story; interesting way of describing some of the character archtypes.
Not bad lah kalo Hemingway
Fantastic writing and story.
May 22, 2013
Xavier Gagne
marked it as to-read
Apr 02, 2013
Eric Keller
marked it as to-read
Mar 25, 2013
Natalya Bukreeva
marked it as to-read
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collec...more
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