By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades - Softcover

Hemingway, Ernest

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ISBN 10: 0684839059 ISBN 13: 9780684839059

Verlag: Scribner, 1998

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A personal glimpse into the life of writer, journalist, war correspondent, adventurer Ernest Hemingway, ranging from experiences in the Spanish Civil War and World War II to his passion for bullfighting and first safari in Africa.

Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of articles and letters shows Hemingway's work as a reporter, from correspondent for the Toronto Star to contributor to Esquire, Colliers, and Look. As fledgling reporter, war correspondent, and seasoned journalist, Hemingway provides access to a range of experiences, including vivid eyewitness accounts of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway offers a glimpse into the world behind the popular fiction of one of America's greatest writers.

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Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961. 

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By-Line Ernest Hemingway

Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four DecadesBy Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway needs no introduction...

Ernest Hemingway, the best-known writer of his generation, needs no introduction to readers today. But this volume, made up of less than one third of the identifiable prose he wrote for newspapers and magazines between 1920 and 1956, does need a few words of explanation. Early in his career, some time before 1931, Hemingway wrote to his bibliographer, Louis Henry Cohn, that the "newspaper stuff I have written...has nothing to do with the other writing which is entirely apart...The first right that a man writing has is the choice of what he will publish. If you have made your living as a newspaperman, learning your trade, writing against deadlines, writing to make stuff timely rather than permanent, no one has any right to dig this stuff up and use it against the stuff you have written to write the best you can."

This is a perfectly reasonable attitude for a novelist or creative writer to take in distinguishing between his fiction and his newspaper reporting. Yet in his more than forty years of writing, not only did Hemingway use the very same material for both news accounts and short stories: he took pieces he first filed with magazines and newspapers and published them with virtually no change in his own books as short stories. For example, two pieces, "A Silent, Ghastly Procession" and "Refugees from Thrace" are news reports (for The Toronto Daily Star) based on experiences he was later to use in In Our Time (1930), where he wrote:

"The Greeks were nice chaps too. When they evacuated they had all their baggage animals they couldn't take off with them so they just broke their forelegs and dumped them into the shallow water. All those mules with their forelegs broken and pushed over into the shallow water. It was all a pleasant business. My word yes a most pleasant business."

The same material turns up again in "On the Quai at Smyrna" in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) and a few other places. Another Toronto Star "news story," "Christmas on the Roof of the World," which is included in the present collection, was privately printed (not by Hemingway) as Two Christmas Tales (1959). But the blurring of the distinction between his news writing and his imaginative writing is most evident in these three instances: "Italy, 1927," a factual account of a motor trip through Spezia, Genoa and Fascist Italy, first published in The New Republic (May 18, 1927) as journalism, then used as a short story in Men Without Women (1927) with a new title, "Che Ti Dice La Patria," and in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938); "Old Man at the Bridge," cabled as a news dispatch from Barcelona and published in Ken (May 19, 1938) and also put into the First Forty-Nine Stories without even a new title; and "The Chauffeurs of Madrid," originally sent on May 22, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) to subscribers of its foreign service as part of Hemingway's coverage of the Spanish Civil War, and which was included by Hemingway in Men at War (1942), which he edited and subtitled "The Best War Stories of All Time." (What did he mean by "stories"?) Hemingway also used in the same collection the Caporetto passages from A Farewell to Arms and the El Sordo sequence from For Whom the Bell Tolls. As Chaucer liked to say, "What nedeth wordes mo?"

As a reporter and foreign correspondent in Kansas City (before World War I), Chicago, Toronto, Paris among the expatriates, the Near East, in Europe with the diplomats and statesmen, in Germany and Spain, Hemingway soaked up persons and places and life like a sponge: these were to become matter for his short stories and novels. His use of this material, however, sets him apart from other creative writers who, as he himself says, made their living as journalists, learning their trade, writing against deadlines, writing to make stuff timely rather than permanent. Hemingway, no matter what he wrote or why he was writing, or for whom, was always the creative writer: he used his material to suit his imaginative purposes. This does not mean that he was not a good reporter, for lie showed a grasp of politics and economics, was an amazing observer, and knew how to dig for information. But his craft was the craft of fiction, not factual reporting. And though he wrote as he saw things, his writing shows most vividly how he felt about what he saw. If the details were sometimes slighted, the picture as a whole -- full of the emotional impact of the events on the people -- was clear, lucid and full. For the picture as a whole was what Hemingway the artist cared about.

In selecting the 77 articles in the present volume, I have not limited myself to "uncollected" material, for many of the Toronto Star pieces appear in Hemingway: The Wild Years (1962), edited by Gene Z. Hanrahan; "Marlin off the Morro" (Esquire) in American Big Game Fishing (1935), edited by Eugene V. Connett; "A. D. in Africa" (Esquire) in Fun in Bed: Just What the Doctor Ordered (1938), edited by Frank Scully; "Remembering Shooting-Flying" (Esquire) in Esquire's First Sports Reader (1945), edited by Herbert Graffis; "On the Blue Water" (Esquire) in Blow the Man Down (1937), edited by Eric Devine; "Notes on the Next War" and "The Malady of Power" (Esquire) as outstanding essays in American magazines in American Points of View 1934-1935 (1936) and American Points of View 1936 (1937), edited by William H. and Kathryn Coe Cordell; "The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming" (Vogue) in Vogue's First Reader (1942), with an introduction by Frank Crowninshield; "A New Kind of War" (NANA) in A Treasury of Great Reporting (1949), edited by Louis L. Snyder and Richard B. Morris; and "London Fights the Robots," (Colliers) in Masterpieces of War Reporting: The Great Moments of World War II (1962), edited by Louis L. Snyder.

The 29 selections (in Section I) from Hemingway's 154 in the Toronto Daily Star and Star Weekly represent his first contribution and the best of his work for those papers. The last piece in the section was written in Paris after he left journalism and launched his career as a short-story writer. By the time he was writing his "letters" almost every month in the 1930's for Esquire -- which make up the second section -- this career was at its height. Of Hemingway's 31 contributions to Esquire I have chosen 17; however, of the remaining 14, six are fiction, outside the scope of my collection.

The NANA dispatches, nine of which I have chosen from the 28 he cabled from Europe, represent Hemingway's return to professional newspaper reporting during the Spanish war. In this third section I also have two articles (out of 14) he wrote for Ken, an anti-Fascist magazine edited by Arnold Gingrich; they are not up to the quality of "Old Man at the Bridge," but they are examples of the sort of thing he wrote for almost every issue of this periodical. Although "The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming," from Vogue, has nothing to do with the Spanish war, it is in this section because of its 1939 date. It is clearly a change-of-pace item and represents Hemingway's continuing interest in fishing, hunting, and the out-of-doors. Every section in the book -- except for...

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• Verlag: Scribner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0684839059
• ISBN 13: 9780684839059
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512
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