Ernest Hemingway - Brossura

Burgess, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 1784531189 ISBN 13: 9781784531188

Casa editrice: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2015

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Ernest Hemingway was 'a man who lived it up to write it down' and his life became the root from which his novels grew. At the age of 18 he was awarded a medal for bravery in the First World War; he honed his literary craft in 1920s Paris; his macho image grew with his love of big-game hunting, deep-sea fishing and bull-fighting and was cemented during the Spanish Civil War, when he survived the bombardment of Madrid. But, by the 1940s, the darkness of his alcoholism and violent rages began to weigh heavily. Hemingway had become the patriarch of American literature but he was plagued by unrelenting demons and an insidious disenchantment with life. In this unflinching portrait, Anthony Burgess explores Hemingway’s fatal contradictions: his arrogance and self-doubt, his machismo and vulnerability. He reveals a man who was as much a creation as his books yet who, even at his worst, reminds us that to engage literature one has first to engage life.

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Recensione:

'Penetrating and generous' Sunday Telegraph 'A superior contribution. Burgess brings empathy as well as knowledge to this study.' --Evening Standard

L'autore:

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel, A Clockwork Orange, but altogether he wrote thirty-three novles, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 150 other musical works and reams of journalism in his role as longtime literary critic for The Observer and The Guardian.

Patrick Marnham is a journalist and author, whose books include So Far from God (winner of the Thomas Cook Prize), The Man who Wasn't Maigret (winner of the Marsh Prize for Biography and an Edgar Allen Poe finalist), Dreaming with his Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera and Road to Katmandu (Tauris Parke Paperbacks). He has been Paris correspondent for The Independent, a reporter for Private Eye and Literary Editor of The Spectator, among other publications.

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