Antes dos autores contemporâneos como Ricardo Lisias, Cristóvão Tezza, entre outros, Hemingway já escrevia no estilo auto-ficção. Esse livro reúne 28 contos do autor e a impressão que tive foi de estar lendo trechos aleatórios de seu diário. Através principalmente de seu famoso personagem Nick Adams ele traz pequenas lembranças de suas experiências nos vários países pelos quais passou, incluindo os períodos de guerra, numa narrativa curta e grossa, com frases curtas e diálogos rápidos.
Não foi uma boa experiência de leitura, ficava sempre com a sensação de não ter assimilado o que o autor quis passar. É como se ele tivesse escrito para si mesmo, registrando suas memórias e a falta da vivência do que ele passou me deixava sempre com a pergunta: "e então?".


Histórico de leitura

30/12/2013





93% (193 de 208)

"Pais e Filhos" Nota: 2 excluir | editar

30/12/2013





84% (174 de 208)

"Vinho do Wyoming" Nota: 2

30/12/2013





82% (170 de 208)

"Um Dia Esperando" Nota: 3

30/12/2013





81% (168 de 208)

"Uma Leitora Escreve" Nota: 2

30/12/2013





78% (163 de 208)

"Mãe de Bichona" Nota: 2

30/12/2013





71% (148 de 208)

"Você Nunca Será Assim" Nota: 2

30/12/2013





68% (142 de 208)

"Mudança de Ares" Nota: 2

30/12/2013





65% (136 de 208)

"Logo no Dia de Natal" Nota: 3

29/12/2013





62% (129 de 208)

"Depois da Tempestade" Nota: 2

29/12/2013





61% (126 de 208)

"História Banal" Nota: 2

28/12/2013





58% (121 de 208)

"Hoje é Sexta-Feira" Nota: 3

27/12/2013





55% (115 de 208)

"Corrida de Perseguição" Nota: 2

27/12/2013





51% (107 de 208)

"Idílio Alpino" Nota: 3

26/12/2013





48% (100 de 208)

"Dez Índios" Nota: 3

26/12/2013





38% (79 de 208)

"A Alma dos Rios" Nota: 2

25/12/2013





35% (72 de 208)

"Neve Por Toda Parte" Nota: 2

25/12/2013





31% (65 de 208)

"Pescaria Frustrada" Nota: 2

24/12/2013





29% (61 de 208)

"O Casal Elliot" Nota: 4

22/12/2013





28% (59 de 208)

"O Revolucionário" Nota: 3

22/12/2013





27% (56 de 208)

"História Curtíssima" Nota: 4

22/12/2013





22% (45 de 208)

"O Lutador" Nota: 4

22/12/2013





16% (33 de 208)

"Uma Ideia Contra o Vento" Nota: 3

22/12/2013





13% (27 de 208)

"O Fim de Alguma Coisa" Nota: 3

21/12/2013





11% (22 de 208)

"O Médico a a Mulher do Médico" Nota: 3

21/12/2013





8% (16 de 208)

"Acampamento Índio" Nota: 3

20/12/2013





6% (13 de 208)

"No Cais de Izmir" Nota: 3

20/12/2013





3% (7 de 208)

"Lá no Michigan" Nota: 3

A complete collection of Hemingway cuentos! Some of them better than some novels.

Favs: •Hills Like White Elephants (2nd time)
•Che ti dice la patria?
•The Sea Change

This was an entertaining book to read. Some stories in this anthology are pretty good and some are quite ordinary. You'll come across boxers, bull riders, Contract killers and all kinds of different characters in these stories. You'll come across some great / ambitious short stories like "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "Snows of Kilomanjaro" and then there are few stories anybody with a pen and a paper could have written. They will make you question whether these stories were written by a Noble Prize winning author. I guess that's what's unique about Hemingway's writing style. "The Indian Camp" is a good example. It's merely an incident but there's something magical about it.

I remember trying to read Old Man and the Sea in high school and feeling uninspired, despite being in awe of the expat, 1920s Paris literary movement that he was such an influential part of. But last year, while staying at a Airbnb cabin in the Sequoia forest, I found this collection and read “Indian Camp"; the surrounding towns had a lot of Native American historical monuments, so it left a deep impression to me. Then I found it again at a thrift store a couple months later. I felt called to it.

Now, 15 years later, after reading 49 of his short stories I can see why I didn’t “get him” as a teen girl growing up in SoCal.

His stories have obvious themes, the most overarching one, in my opinion, being masculinity, but I think people get fooled by the macho bravado found in his stories. Personally, I don’t find hunting, fishing, horse-racing, war, boxing, bullfighting, gambling, etc. etc. that interesting, but binding all of these superficially masculine storylines is Hemingway’s true fascination: the frailty of man—the reality of death. If male-hood is the tip of the iceberg, fear of death is the behemoth beneath the surface.

His best stories are rich with empathy and sensitivity, and an eagle-eye for nature’s details. My favorites usually left me hanging at the end of a cliff feeling like, “Oh, *this* is what death means,” while staring at the depths below. 

They were:

All the Nick Adams stories (with Big Two-Hearted River and Fathers and Sons at the top) (If you want to read any bundle of his stories, read these.)
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (If I could recommend one, it would be this.)
Now I Lay Me

There were many clear misses for me, and I probably won’t seek out Hemingway's writing for a long time, but I can see why he was groundbreaking in the 1920s and throughout the 20th century. I respect him as a literary figure who created a style that is so commonplace it’s easy to take for granted, and who painstakingly humanized generations of men who were ravaged, displaced, and isolated by the horrors of war (inner and outer). I was less impressed by his pitch-perfect way with words (I think even he knew this and was insecure about it) than by the sheer breadth of what he wrote about: He lived many lives and had so much to say. And then he actually said it.

This quote by him sums up how I feel about this collection: “In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused. Now it is necessary to get to the grindstone again.”

I liked the way the stories were connected, but some of them were so boring and it took me ages to read them. I loved some of the stories, but most were just meh.

Me gustó la forma en la que se conectan las historias, pero algunas fueron muy aburridas y me llevó muchísimo leerlas. Hubo historias que me encantaron, pero la mayoría me resultaron meh.

MegaChad liked him in Midnight in Paris

Hemingway ist ein ziemlich kranker Typ (gewesen). Aber ich mag das - vor ein paar Jahren konnte ich mit seinem Stil sehr wenig angefangen, aber irgendwann hat es dann klick gemacht.
Jetzt mag ich seine klaren Sätze.
Leider habe ich nicht den zweiten Band zu 49 Stories gefunden. Entweder war er nie da oder jemand hat ihn schon vor mir aus dem öffentlichen Bücherregal bei der Plasmaspende genommen. Hier enthalten war auch die Kurzgeschichte "Schnee auf dem Kilimandscharo". Im Buchladen sah ich diese schon oft als Einzelversion liegen - ein paar Seiten und nur 6 Geschichten in einem potthässlichen Paperback. Ich mag meine alten, vergilbten und lädierten Editionen. Die sind alle viel gelesen - was für mich heißt, dass jemand sie mal genau so geliebt hat wie ich.

I think these stories tell more about who Hemingway was than any other book I’ve read of his. The deaths, assaults, fights, religion, and heartbreak reveal a lot about how he thought about life.

Purchased in 1979 and apparently (disrupted spine) read around then, now re-read and thoroughly enjoyed. The Nick Adams stories in particular are poignantly done. His hunting, fishing, making love with an Indian girl, deciding to break off with his girlfriend, traveling to Europe, discovering the horrors of war as well as the charms of Italy, Spain and France are all written of with a sense of discovery and reflection that draws in the reader to EH's vision. Two longer stories - The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - are outside this Nick Adams bubble, so to speak, and show the touch of the novelist rather than the early, maturing participant in life's mysteries and challenges. However, it is EH's style which must be paramount to any discerning reader. The T.S. Eliot of prose, he makes virtually every word count with his diction in a way unmatched by any other writer I've read. It is a terse, hard-bitten, largely unsentimental, strongly masculine and coldly exact language: not just in his vocabulary, but in his syntactical choices for his sentences. Thus, the exquisite punch of each word and each sentence is unavoidable. Finally, EH has no respect for the conventions of narrative story telling. More often, he starts his stories in the middle of an action and ends with a reflection of one of its characters seemingly partway through the experience they are undergoing - that is, he tries to emphasize the ephemeral nature of experience, how it is only partly contingent upon what one is actually doing, and arises more from one's impressions and emotions in response to those actions. Thus, he learned from the Impressionists in his themes as much as he followed the absolute dictates of realism in his writing style.

Such an amazing collection, lot of bang for your buck within these pages.

Visited his home in Key West, and decided to read some of his work. I found it very tough to get through and sometimes hard to follow the story line. I know he is a lauded author, but just not my preference.