A Journey Through Baihua Literature 4 – Hemingway

Author: Anthony Burgess
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: Hemingway (1899–1961), one of the greatest writers in the United States, continues to awe his readers with the literary charm he inspired. Unlike most contemporary writers, the strong and handsome Hemingway was not content to be an excellent hunter, fisherman, boxer, and guerrilla leader; he transformed himself into a Homeric myth. Anthony Burgess, one of the most important writers of the 20th century, describes this man, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, as a mythical hero of the international stage in the 20th century. External acclaim and recognition cannot hide the fact that the sensitive and extraordinary Hemingway was actually a melancholic, tortured, and even evil man. The author gradually reveals certain ambiguous attitudes of Hemingway's personality toward life and death through his critical dialogues and the stories he told in bars, on boats, and during hunts, which seem to contradict his proactive stance in war and hunting. The book includes 116 stunning photographs, presenting the different stages of Hemingway's life through images of himself, his family, and surrounding people, allowing readers to travel through a time tunnel and witness the life journey of a literary master firsthand.