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Chargement... Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises (2016)par Lesley M. M. Blume
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Hemingway and his first novel. Learn it. ( ) Hemingway can describe the most ordinary events in careful, interesting sentences, like walking down a path, driving along a road, eating a meal. Few of the characters in The Sun Also Rises, are admirable. Still, it is a well-told story. Lesley M. M. Blumes's Everybody Behaves Badly, tells me a lot about why all these things are true. An interesting if light biography of a particular time in Hemingway's life. If you are looking for a more comprehensive review of Hemingway's life and work, this isn't it. However, if what you are looking for is a fun, gossipy portrait of a very particular time and place, this book will hit the spot. The title sums it up well, I remember some of the details from Mellow's biography [Hemingway]. Obviously a labor of love, Blume goes into almost exhaustive detail over the few days of the festival, and then thoroughly explores the ramifications and echoes of that holiday in the years and decades that follow. My favorite novels are Huckleberry Finn (which Hemingway called "the great American novel"), On the Road, Generation X and The Sun Also Rises. They are all road trip stories about people who are out of step with the larger population. Hemingway's other two great novels, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, are much longer and for me a comedown from The Sun Also Rises, not nearly as good. It was great to learn about the backgrounds of the real people whose characters filled the pages of this great novel. This is all quite apart though from the fact that Hemingway was a reprehensible person who got worse as he got older. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world. In the summer of 1925, Earnest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novel The Sun Also Rises. This revolutionary work redefined modern literature as much as it did his peers, who would forever after be called the Lost Generation. But the full story of Hemingway's legendary rise has remained untold until now. Lesley Blume resurrects the explosive, restless landscape of 1920s Paris and Spain and reveals how Hemingway helped create his own legend. He made himself into a death-courting, bull-fighting aficionado; a hard-drinking, short-fused literary genius; and an expatriate bon vivant. Blume's vivid account reveals the inner circle of the Lost Generation as we have never seen it before, and shows how it still influences what we read and how we think about youth, sex, love, and excess."-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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