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...ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY by Carlos Baker. 697 pages. Scribner...
...novels (The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms) and the most brilliant short stories since James Joyce's Dubliners had made him, in his terminology, a champion. He should have lived happily ever after. But then, along came Ernest the Bad-the nonwriting Hemingway...
Fraid a Nothing. Because Hemingway was so flamboyant and public a figure, Carlos Baker's long-awaited biography could hardly discover hidden chapters of his life. But Baker-a Princeton professor, the author of an earlier critical study of Hemingway's writing and sometime novelist himself-is the scholarly inheritor of Hemingway's papers. He has used the material to fashion the first solid, cohesive and convincingly authentic account of a lifetime most often presented in the past in fragments by partisan observers. The book's great additional merit is that it forces readers to take...
...book ends on the morning of July 2, 1961, when Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun. He was exhausted at the time and had been under treatment for erratic blood pressure, liver ailments and acute melancholia. But, Baker implies, the tragic themes of Hemingway's writing were not contradicted but confirmed by that final act and by Hemingway's entire personal history...
...premise that sexual expression is primarily a social phenomenon. Far from asserting a primordial urge, it varies from culture to culture and from individual to individual. In Polynesia, what the West calls foreplay is epilogue, not prologue, to coitus. Gagnon notes that for some writers-among them Lawrence, Hemingway and Mailer-sex is as much a political as a procreative process; Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover struck a calculated blow against the morality of the time. To prostitutes, it is only a livelihood, and frequently no more erotic than punching a clock. Some clerical celibates abstain...