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Trois coups de feu / Le Dernier beau coin du pays
La nuit. Le bord du lac. La forêt de pins résonne de bruits inquiétants. Dans la tente où l'ont laissé son père et son oncle Georges, partis à la pêche, Nick ne parvient pas à trouver le sommeil. Il a peur. "S'il arrive quelque chose, tire trois coups avec le fusil" lui a dit son père avant de le quitter...
128 pages, Pocket Book
First published January 14, 2002
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Ernest Hemingway
2,241 books32.5k followersErnest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.
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October 6, 2010
Despite the fact that this title is part of the "folio junior" series, I encountered a lot of new french vocabulary and thus enjoyed it a great deal.
It was interesting and somewhat boggling to encounter veritable americana- hemingway's first fledgling efforts to master the short story- through french tongue.
The storyline itself, a sort of mythology of boyhood in the woods of northern michigan, was familiar and full of the kind of sensory pauses that calm and entrance the reader.
Simultaneously, parts of the text felt exaggerated. Our protagonist is a young boy fleeing the law for hunting violations, and I had the distinct feeling that hemingway's distorted memories got in the way of his narrative from time to time.
I'd be interested to read the piece in english down the road, and see how my perception and opinion are affected.
It was interesting and somewhat boggling to encounter veritable americana- hemingway's first fledgling efforts to master the short story- through french tongue.
The storyline itself, a sort of mythology of boyhood in the woods of northern michigan, was familiar and full of the kind of sensory pauses that calm and entrance the reader.
Simultaneously, parts of the text felt exaggerated. Our protagonist is a young boy fleeing the law for hunting violations, and I had the distinct feeling that hemingway's distorted memories got in the way of his narrative from time to time.
I'd be interested to read the piece in english down the road, and see how my perception and opinion are affected.
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