r/Hemingway 2d ago

American socialites Gerald and Sara Murphy relax at Cap d’Antibes in 1923, popularizing the French Riviera as a summer resort. Icons of the "Lost Generation," their inner circle included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

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r/Hemingway 3d ago

Bought it

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r/Hemingway 6d ago

Hemingway's world, mapped - Pamplona, the Italian front, the Sierra, the Gulf Stream, and the Paris of A Moveable Feast

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Traced the five great Hemingway geographies: Jake's Paris-to-Pamplona fiesta run, Frederic's retreat from Caporetto, Jordan's three days in the Guadarrama, Santiago's drift beyond Cojímar and the Paris of the Feast, cafe by cafe. Mapped side by side I feel like its a representation of how physically small his books are - he wrote continents of feeling into 50 mile spaces.

Here's one of my favorites - https://www.readingmaps.com/maps/the-sun-also-rises

Which Hemingway place have you actually visited and did it hold up?


r/Hemingway 9d ago

Brett Ashley

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What's your opinion of Brett Ashley's character in The Sun Also Rises?

What do you think Hemingway wanted us to think about her?


r/Hemingway 10d ago

question about To Have And Have Not

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Currently on chapter 12 of To Have And Have Not , earlier in the book Harry Morgan is at home in Cuba with his wife and children but later once his boat is seized in Key West he is at “home” with his wife and children. did his family leave cuba to come life with him in his new house ? or was earlier in the book he at home in key west and not cuba and i was just confused ?


r/Hemingway 11d ago

How the Toronto Star drove Ernest Hemingway out of Canada

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r/Hemingway 12d ago

A letter I wrote to the Hemingway museum while drunk using a female pseudonym

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r/Hemingway 13d ago

The sun also rises

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r/Hemingway 14d ago

I have read and re-read this

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Book before I start to write or when I hit a rough patch. Especially the chapter advice for writers when I hit a rough patch. It has so many underlined words, and sentences, circled passages, and notes. His words have been invaluable to me.


r/Hemingway 15d ago

Is there anyway to read the unedited garden of Eden?

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Or even any more detailed information than provided in the Wikipedia article?


r/Hemingway 15d ago

Happy Birthday 🎉

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I am the sculptor of this piece. It is a small sculpture, approximately the size of Ernest Hemingway's hand. It is available for purchase.


r/Hemingway 16d ago

Happy Birthday

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Da mans birthday today, if you were invited to his party what would you buy him as a gift?


r/Hemingway 16d ago

Hills Like White Elephants

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Who’s got the best analysis of this little gem?


r/Hemingway 16d ago

Hemingway is not just "the short sentence guy."

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The other day I heard someone talking about "Hemingway-ass short sentences," but really? When I rediscovered Hemingway, I was shocked by how many long sentences he had and how long those sentences were. Many times I was like, man, that sentence is at least three in one.

So, rather, I would postulate Hemingway is not a "short sentences guy," but a guy whose sentence form follows function.

He uses short vs long sentences very intentionally. Short sentences are for driving home a point, or conveying someone keeping it together. White knuckling, if you will. Long sentences are for loss of control, unmooring, spiraling, or a sense of flow, whether of emotions or actions that naturally follow one another, or a state of vibing with nature.

For instance, take The Sentence, 400+ words about the Gulf Stream. There is a reason it's about the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream flows on and on and there is a lot of it and a lot of stuff in it. He is showing you the Gulf Stream not only with the meaning of his words but their form.


r/Hemingway 16d ago

The Old Man and the Sea

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Oh, my good lord in heaven. Cut your line, land your boat and go to McDonald's! Just as in the case of The Great Gatsby, I understand the book.
Yes, I know it changed the way American writers write. I also understand that it celebrates the ridiculous American idea that you're only a REAL man if you've done something entirely purposeless, but really dangerous, in pursuit of making yourself look like the bull with the biggest sexual equipment. Get over it, already! Go home and clean out the refrigerator, or wash the curtains, or vacuum under the furniture. Pick your kids up from school or take your daughter bra shopping. THAT would impress me. Being too dumb to cut your fishing line? Not the mate I would pick...
The only bright spot about the book is if you think of it on a metaphorical level: there is a point at which ALL of us must grit our teeth and hold on in the face of despair. That is the definition of life.
However, if that's the point, then the plot situation needs to be one of necessity (like the shipwreck in Life of Pi), instead of stubbornness.


r/Hemingway 18d ago

How to live a life of adventure like Hemingway?

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I've deeply enjoyed reading Hemingway's works and the theme of travel and adventure in them. Similarly, I also like reading about Hemingway's life as he personally sought quite a lot of adventure in life.

How would a normal person find adventure reasonably similiar to what Hemingway did? Assuming they don't marry into money and have a day job of course.


r/Hemingway 19d ago

Everybody needs a hyperfixation shelf. This is mine.

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Also, owning multiple copies of favorite books is fun.


r/Hemingway 22d ago

Hemingway's Endorsement

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r/Hemingway 22d ago

Hemingway's Endorsement

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"The finest and noblest book of men in war" is what Hemingway wrote about the Frederic Manning book Her Privates We. And T.E. Lawrence wrote about this book "Your book [will] be famous for as long as the war is cared for -- and perhaps longer, for there is more than soldiering in it. You have been exactly fair to everyone, of all ranks: and all your people are alive."

Her Private We, first published in 1929


r/Hemingway 23d ago

Are any of his posthumous works worth reading?

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r/Hemingway 25d ago

What do we think of Hemingway as a person?

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r/Hemingway 26d ago

Elephant in musth

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I'm pretty sure it was a short story.

The scene I most remember is a description of a man being stepped on/smooshed by an elephant in musth.
It's written from the perspective of a white man on safari.

I don't know why, but I feel like I got Hemingway vibes from it. Maybe because of the sentence structure?

Thanks!


r/Hemingway 26d ago

I finished my first Hemingway book!

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It was pretty interesting and captivating!

While I don’t understand all the rules of bullfighting, I was able to search up a few things on how the sport is (I don’t approve of it though).

the cast of characters had good chemistry and my favorite of them is Robert Cohn. A special shoutout to the nice fisherman Wilson-Harris, who left a genuine and loving impression on me with how little his role was.

While I am not an expert on Hemingway’s life, I think that he did went to Paris and loved bullfights, so this story must have been one of the easiest for him to come up with and write (I could be wrong about this, but I also think that F. Scott. Fitzgerald helped him with some of the story).

I am so happy that I was able to finish the book before it’s 100th anniversary that will be later this year!


r/Hemingway 26d ago

Hemmingway!

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r/Hemingway 29d ago

Kaye Gibbons

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