Word: hemingways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FIFTH COLUMN AND THE FIRST FORTY-NINE STORIES-Ernest Hemingway -Scribner...
This will leave a powerful set of reserves to fill in. The second line-up is: Huffard, Boxton, Zilly and Seabury ends, John and Taylor tackles, Hemingway and Charlie Miller guards, Starbuck and Willard centers, and Humphrey, Wilson, Burr and Whiteman backs. The whole squad is in good fighting form, and they seem to have the old do-or-die attitude to the last degree...
Background. When André Malraux met Ernest Hemingway in Spain (so the story goes), they divided the Spanish Civil War between them. Malraux took the story up to the Loyalist victory at Guadalajara, Hemingway after it. From the Loyalist as well as the literary viewpoint, it looks as if Malraux got the better part. For while Hemingway's section (not yet published) is to deal with the clash of the two organized armies. Malraux's, covering the early period, is a swift, tumultuous affair of assaults on barracks, street-fighting, bombing, sniping, chaos, breakneck confusion, which somehow resolves...
...eloquence; to small groups of writers from Princeton to Hollywood he preached his favorite literary message: the value to literature of active political careers by its creators. Long an admirer of U. S. literature (he introduced William Faulkner to France, considers him the first U. S. novelist, likes Hemingway and the novels of Dashiell Hammett), he was amazed at the remoteness of U. S. writing men from world problems. In Hollywood he made three money-raising speeches, made a bigger impression on Hollywood's writing colony than any recent visiting celebrity except Hemingway. Aloof, he would speak only through...
...stories published with The Fifth Column make up an even stronger criticism of the play. These 49 tales include all those published in Hemingway's three volumes of short stories, and several new ones, add up to 495 pages of superb prose, and make the collection one of the biggest literary bargains of the year. Best of the new tales. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, sums up Hemingway's fundamental credo as well as anything he has written. In comparison with such brief and finished works which combine psychological subtlety with adventure, The Fifth Column seems...