Here are Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer in the Paris of the 1920s. He looks not only at himself but also at the other writers who were there at the time: James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein

A moveable feat

Un pont, dans la montagne de Castille, doit sauter; il faut couper la route à l'armée franquiste. Pour cette mission précise, Robert Jordan, jeune Américain enrôlé volontaire dans les rangs républicains, rejoint un groupe de maquisards espagnols parmi lesquels se trouvent deux femmes : la terrible Pilar et la tendre Maria pour laquelle Jordan va immédiatement éprouver une vive passion.L'amour suspendra le temps, éloignera la solitude et fera oublier la mort.

Pour qui sonne le glas

Frédéric Henry, jeune Américain volontaire dans les ambulances sur le front d'Italie, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, est blessé et s'éprend de son infirmière, Catherine Barkley. Avec Catherine, enceinte, il tente de fuir la guerre et de passer en Suisse, où le destin les attend. 
Un des meilleurs romans de guerre. Un des plus grands romans d'amour.

L'adieu aux armes

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

Le Soleil se lève aussi

Subtitled 'A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race', The Torrents of Spring - Hemingway's second published work - wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the 'great race' of writers of his generation.

Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets of for Chicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets up with Yogi Johnson. Their bizarre stories are a brilliant satire on conventional fiction. The characters they meet are absurd and yet strangely familiar. Short, fast-paced, funny, The Torrents of Spring throws light on Hemingway's later work - and is a delight to read. Here we can see the developing talent of one of the great novelists of the twentieth century.

THE TORRENTS OF SPRING

The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway's 1sthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace & pressure of the season, the camaraderie & pride of the matadors, & the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex & deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the 20th century's preeminent writers.

Ete Dangereux

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

«Comme il se tenait là, avec la mitraillette dans sa main gauche, jetant un regard circulaire avant de refermer le panneau à l'aide du crochet terminant son bras droit, le Cubain qui était allongé à bâbord et qui avait reçu trois balles dans l'épaule se mit sur son séant, visa soigneusement et lui envoya une balle dans le ventre.» Harry Morgan, un Américain installé à Cuba, gagne sa vie en organisant des croisières de pêche pour les touristes. Lorsqu’on lui propose de transporter des hommes et des marchandises clandestines, sa vie bascule dans le crime.

En avoir ou pas

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

A moveable feat

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