Hemingway a été chargé dans sa jeunesse des chiens écrasés au Kansas City Star. On reconnaît maintenant que son métier de journaliste lui a beaucoup servi pour devenir écrivain et romancier. Le docteur Bruccoli, professeur d'anglais à l'Université de la Caroline du Sud, est parvenu à attribuer onze articles anonymes du Kansas City Star à Hemingway. On y découvre déjà son talent et ses dons exceptionnels pour évoquer la violence et camper des personnages.

E. H. apprenti reporter

À Cuba, voilà quatre-vingt-quatre jours que le vieux Santiago rentre bredouille de la pêche, ses filets désespérément vides. La chance l’a déserté depuis longtemps. À l’aube du quatre-vingt-cinquième jour, son jeune ami Manolin lui fournit deux belles sardines fraîches pour appâter le poisson, et lui souhaite bonne chance en le regardant s’éloigner à bord de son petit bateau. Aujourd’hui, Santiago sent que la fortune lui revient. Et en effet, un poisson vient mordre à l’hameçon. C’est un marlin magnifique et gigantesque. Débute alors le plus âpre des duels. Combat de l’homme et de la nature, roman du courage et de l’espoir, Le vieil homme et la mer est un des plus grands livres de la littérature américaine. Cette nouvelle traduction s’attache à restituer la prose lente, solennelle, presque dépouillée et subtilement ouvragée dans laquelle Hemingway chante l’aventure du vieil homme, lui redonnant ainsi toute sa dimension héroïque et tragique.

Le vieil homme et la mer

A young American volunteers for the Italian ambulance service in World War I. Working near the front, he meets and falls in love with a British nurse. Disillusioned by the war, he makes the decision to desert, taking his new love to Switzerland.

A farewell to arms

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivaled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism and artistry, and its requisite display of grace under pressure, ignited Hemingway's imagination. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick." Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great elegance and cunning.A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation of the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's sharp commentary on life and literature.

Mort dans l'après-midi

Journaliste et romancier, Hemingway a su mener les deux activités de front avec un égal talent, utilisant l'une au profit de l'autre et vice versa. Le jeune Ernest n'a pas dix-huit ans lorsqu'il publie son premier article. Pêche, chasse, descriptions de paysages et de moeurs, anecdotes de voyage, exotisme et reportage de guerre : il aborde tous les genres avec aisance et impose immédiatement ce style sans fioritures qui n'a pas pris une ride. Plus de quarante années d'articles et de dépêches écrites aux quatre coins de la planète sont réunies dans ce recueil qui se divise en cinq parties. La première représente les débuts d'Hemingway journaliste. D'emblée, le jeune homme porte un regard original, avisé et plein d'humour sur ce qui l'entoure. Après quelques années exclusivement consacrées à la littérature, Hemingway, devenu écrivain célèbre, renoue avec le reportage. Il couvre la guerre d'Espagne, qui lui inspirera Pour qui sonne le glas, puis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Le livre se termine sur l'après-guerre vu par un homme de plus en plus fasciné par la mort. 

 Trad. de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Georges Magnane et Jean-René Major. Édition de William White et Philip Young.

En ligne ; choix d'articles et de dépêches de quarante années

Hemingway a parfois - surtout dans sa jeunesse - éprouvé le besoin de s'exprimer en vers, dans des poèmes généralement très courts. Il se comporte alors comme un chat sauvage qui crache au visage de ceux qu'il déteste, qui grogne, menace, mais quelquefois aussi ronronne, lorsqu'on le caresse. On le voit ainsi passer au fil des ans de la colère à l'amour, mais il donne plus souvent dans la satire que dans le lyrisme et met plus volontiers à nu son irritabilité que sa sensibilité - une sensibilité qui tourne même à la sentimentalité, lorsqu'il s'adresse à Mary. Aucune recherche formelle dans ces poèmes, qui vont du cri à la complainte et où il est clair que Hemingway a un prodigieux sens du rythme. Hemingway a publié ces poèmes un peu au hasard, dans des petites revues le plus souvent. Certains sont même restés inédits. Il ne s'est jamais soucié de les réunir en un recueil. Ils valaient cependant la peine d'être rassemblés. Ils montrent un aspect insoupçonné du talent du grand romancier.

88 poèmes

Originally published as "In Our Time" by Ernest Hemingway by Three Mountains Press, Paris, 1924. Translated from English by Céline Zins and Henri Robillot. Gallimard published the French translation in 1999. This edition was published by Le Bruit du Temps, Paris, in 2011. In this edition, each page is presented with the English on the left facing page and the French translation on each right facing page.

In Our Time/De Nos Jours

First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer — a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing — from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) — this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse of Hemingway's rich and relaxed sense of humor, which enlivens scene after scene.  Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar, where a wildly diverse cast of characters — including an aging prostitute who stands out as one of Hemingway's most vivid creations — engages in incomparably rich dialogue. A brilliant portrait of the inner life of a complex and endlessly intriguing man, Islands in the Stream is Hemingway at his mature best.

Îles à la dérive

The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original & influential careers in American literature. His works have been translated into every major language. The Nobel Prize awarded to him in 1954 recognized his impact on contemporary writing. While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway & the legendary accounts of his life, few knew him as an intimate. With this collection of letters, presented for the 1st time as a Scribner Classic, a new Hemingway emerges. Ranging from 1917 to 1961, this generous selection of nearly 600 letters is, in effect, both a self-portrait & an autobiography. In his own words, Hemingway candidly reveals himself to a wide variety of people: family, friends, enemies, editors, translators & almost all the prominent writers of his day. In so doing he proves to be one of the most entertaining letter writers of all time. Carlos Baker has chosen letters that not only represent major turning points in Hemingway's career but also exhibit character, wit & the writer's typical enthusiasm for hunting, fishing, drinking & eating. A few are ingratiating, some downright truculent. Others present his views on writing & reading, criticize books by friend or foe, & discuss women, soldiers, politicians & prizefighters. Perhaps more than anything, these letters show his irrepressible humor, given far freer rein in his correspondence than in his books. An informal biography in letters, the product of 45 years living & writing, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters leaves an indelible impression of an extraordinary man. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, IL, in 1899. At 17 he left home to join the Kansas City Star as a reporter, then volunteered to serve in the Red Cross during WWI. He was severely wounded at the Italian front & was awarded the Croce di Guerra. He moved to Paris in 1921, where he devoted himself to writing fiction, & where he fell in with the expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound & Ford Madox Ford. His novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), To Have & Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) & The Old Man & the Sea (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on 7/2/61.

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