I racconti di Nick Adams

by Ernest Hemingway, Sergio Trevisani (Translator), Vincenzo Mantovani (Translator)

Overview

Le storie di Nick, protagonista di questi racconti, attingono la loro sostanza narrativa alla vita stessa di Hemingway assumendo i tratti di una vicenda autobiografica drammatizzata, scontrosa e delicatamente elegiaca, dove l'esperienza di vita si sublima nell'esperienza dell'arte. Con la scoperta da parte di Philip Young di altri otto pezzi inediti, la figura di Nick Adams, uno dei più tipici protagonisti hemingwaiani, viene proposta nella sua integrità letteraria e storica, in una "significativa narrazione nella quale un indimenticabile personaggio diventa, da bambino, adolescente e poi soldato, reduce, scrittore e padre…" proiettando una nuova luce sulla personalità dell'autore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788852068010
Publisher:	MONDADORI
Publication date:	09/22/2015
Sold by:	ARNOLDO MONDADORI - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	543 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. Before the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.

During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.

Hemingway -- himself a great sportsman -- liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

© The Nobel Foundation 1954.

Date of Birth:

July 21, 1899

Date of Death:

July 2, 1961

Place of Birth:

Oak Park, Illinois

Place of Death:

Ketchum, Idaho