Top 5 Ernest Hemingway Books
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2018
- I look back to my Hemingway readings and pick a few favorites!
All the books mentioned in this video, in alphabetical order, with links to buy them on Amazon (yep I'm an affiliate):
Across the River and Into the Trees: amzn.to/2DvLys2
A Farewell to Arms: amzn.to/2F7F9Uz
For Whom the Bell Tolls: amzn.to/2F65z96
A Moveable Feast: amzn.to/2DvrOFf
The Old Man and the Sea: amzn.to/2E2sSRY
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories: amzn.to/2E113tb
The Sun Also Rises: amzn.to/2E2Wy14
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The Sun Also Rises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Islands in the Stream
Many of the Short Stories
Read all of Hemingway several times over but not in the past 30 to 40 years. These are books and stories that still live with me.
An appreciation for Hemingway’s writing requires a powerful imagination to produce a lot of the mental imagery because his writing is so simple and straightforward and he doesn’t explain every minor detail the way some other classical authors do. It calls for some work on the reader’s part to “fill in the blanks” so to speak. But what you do get from Hemingway is a writer who lived an adventurous life, deeply understood the human condition, and wrote about it in a way that resonates with many people. Anyone who claims that they did not feel like someone tore open their chest, ripped out their heart and brutally stopped on it at the the end of A Farewell to Arms I would suspect was lacking a heart to begin with. Some writers charms are in the way they make you feel, not what they make you think.
"A clean, well lighted place". Loved it. So human. As all the rest of his work.
I always watch your videos, but I think I never comment on them. Just wanted to say that I really enjoy your content and the way you describe books really makes me want to read them immediately. I especially enjoy videos like this where you talk about more than one book. Keep it up. :D
I was happy to see For Whom the Bell Tolls as your unofficial favourite, it's definitely mine as well. The story of the town and the a fascists was so strong. It's an incredibly well crafted book and one of my favourites of all time.
The Sun also rises is my first Hemingway book. I love it. ❤️
just sharing...
A Moveable Feast was my first Hemingway book. It was completely bewitching to the senses and pleasant. My next read is The Green Hills of Africa... I am loving do far
I have loved Hemingway since I was in high school, decades ago. The Sun Also Rises is my favorite novel of all time from any author. It appeals to my love of adventure and travel, as well as background in the history of the period between the world wars. Yes, it is really not a pleasant book though. Hemingway was often like that.
Thanks for reminding me about Hemingway. Agree with your comments. Only short story I've read is the great, The Old Man and the Sea - a good introduction to Hemingway. Didn't know about Across the River...... I will check it out but aim firstly to read a Hemingway short story collection.
Great reviews. Thank you!
Hemingway's "The Killers" and "Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber" are great short stories.
Francis Macomber is such a good short story
I'LL start to read some Hemingway's Books .... Thank you for you top ten!
I think The Sun Also Rises is one of my favorites. Tragedy seemed to be a constant for Hemingway. I also liked The Old Man and the Sea. A Moveable Feast and For Whom the Bell Tolls are both on my distant TBR. The only other novel I've read by him is A Farewell to Arms, which I felt was ok but I read it in college a long while ago and should probably reread it one day. Thanks for this video - making me reflect on Hemingway.
I'm sure you'll have a great time with For Whom the Bell Tolls, while Moveable Feast is definitely a very different experience, much lighter, though there's an undertone of vast sadness there too.
I can't really say I've enjoyed any of his novels. For Whom the Bell Tolls was alright.
But, I really like his short stories, they really showcase his tip of the iceberg technique and are just loaded with atmosphere and implied meanings. For example, his short story "Indian Camp" has so much bubbling beneath the surface level. To me they are like the minimalism of haikus shaking hands with the psychological depth of novels.
I've yet to read A Moveable Feast. Maybe this will be the year.
Thank you for your insight!
People always say his short stories are plot-less, but like... you can always recall Hemingway's short stories, I recall some of them almost as movies in my head, they stuck so well. I feel like this is because of how short and blunt his writing is, he cuts out the crap and the flowery shit and leaves you with literally all you need, the story, and if the story is good, it sticks.
My favourite of his is The Old Man and the Sea, its up there as one of my favourite books even.
People that say 'but, there is no plot' or 'nothing happens' or even 'I hate ambiguous endings', should be lined against the wall and then get shoot.
I agree that his inovative style is more on display in his short stories. He wrote an essay called "the art of the short story". He understood something about readers and writing that most dont. "The three day blow," "cat in the rain"", a clean well lighted place" and "hills like white elephants" showcase his mastery best I think.
Love your videos! Only thing I would add is the title at the beginning, as well as at the end. Us old people have short term memories. 😬
That's interesting. A Farewell to Arms was one of my first Hemingways (only after The Old Man and the Sea) and I not only loved it, but it's still one of my favourites. Probably tie for the first place with The Sun Also Rises. I just found it so humane and full of life. It ends on a sad note, but it's very cathartic, which I guess was the point since it's about love as a form of escape and fantasy during wartime. And the imagery he describes was some of his best, with the evacuation sequence being one of my favourites in his works. I found For Whom the Bell Tolls to pale in comparison, honestly. (Although I don't think they should be compared that much because beyond the fact that they are both written by Hemingway and about war, don't have that much in common and aim for a much different portrayal of war from two vastly different perspectives.)
I'm not sure if I mention it in the video but it's high time I re-read Farewell to Arms; I actually almost did during Christmas but changed my mind at the last moment.
A Clean, Well lighted Place is one of his best in my opinion
A Moveable Feast like you said.
Complimenti per le tue recensioni, ti seguo da poco ma ho gia recupetato parecchi video...
Volevo anche chiederti se hai parlato gia sul canalle di Donna Tart?
Grazie mille - e no, non la conosco! Mi hanno suggerito The Goldfinch/Il Cardellino un milione di volte, ma la taglia importante mi ha sempre scoraggiato fin'ora... un giorno lo leggerò senz'altro ;)
The_Bookchemist ti consiglio dio di illusioni che è anche un po più breve☺
posso chiederti una cosa che probabilmente trovo interessante solo io: che rapporto hai con l'idea / l'atto di leggere letteratura anglo-americana in italiano? per me è un problema pratico serio. Non riesco mai a decidere se voglio farlo o meno (mia mamma guarda caso ha tutto Hemingway in italiano, per esempio). Se mi risolvi l'impasse mi fai un favore xD. ciao
Ciao Paolo! Guarda io da tanti anni leggo solo in inglese, all'inizio è stato difficile ma poi ci ho preso l'abitudine, e ormai è una questione di consistency per me: quando mi capita di leggere in italiano lo trovo difficile, non perché sappia chissà che bene l'inglese ma perché ormai son abituato ai ritmi/stili della scrittura americana.
Secondo me se riesci a legger in originale, allora ne vale la pena, tanto è solo questione di abitudine! Poi oh, secondo me si legge per divertirsi: non deve diventare un peso! Non so se aiuta come prospettiva ^^
I want to read more of the titles on this list. Read the sun also rises and nick Addams stories.Nick Addams stories is I feel a less known Hemingway novel which I don’t understand as it is so good. It basically about Hemingway’s complete life from childhood to parenthood through his alter ego nick Addams
i can definitely see Hemingway's influence on contemporary American writing, whether the influence is acknowledged or not. i liked how you made a distinction b/w American vs British fiction, something i've also felt but never heard anyone articulate. actually wondering now how you feel about the style of British fiction
Between the two of us? Not a fan. With some exceptions of course - speaking of contemporary, I like Michael Moorcock and Terry Pratchett, Gregory Dowling, JG Ballard, and what I've read of David Mitchell so far.
@@TheBookchemist I'd recommend John Fowles.
Loved A Farewell To Arms
I think one of the upsides of his style is that it makes his books easier to translate into Romance languages than let's say Pynchon or DFW's books. A talented translator can def make them sound smooth, or do you think it's important to read him in his original language?
My attitude toward reading in translation is: if you can avoid it, do, but otherwise, there's nothing wrong with it, no matter the writer. Translating literature is actually one of the noblest professions out there if you ask me, and it's totally unfair that so many people (especially in the academia) give translators a hard time all the time. That said, I totally get your point about Hemingway's style being easily translatable - may it e one of the reasons he has become so popular in Italy?
Hey! Finally an author I give a shit about! Thanks Bookchemist!
Good picks, was surprised to see ATRAITT. As a Hem fan I love it, but most shit on it. One very underrated "novel" is the posthumous Islands in the Stream. Check it out.
I will, thanks!
What does he mean by seminal ~ 1:57
Groundbreaking, trailblazing, revolutionary, constitutive, epoch-making, pivotal, seminal. ;)
What do you get when one of Hemingway's novels is adapted by Faulkner (among others)? A second rate Casablanca, i.e. To Have and Have Not. What a disappointment.
Braxant That is fun little novel, though.
cara, você é brasileiro?
Cool room dude.
I want to get Ernest Hemingway novels
Every young adult should read The Sun Also Rises
Why?
@@folksurvival Because it reflects on the negative aspects of nihilistic hedonism.
@@TheTheode I've read it myself, i just wondered why the OP thought so.
Sfortunatamente "Le nevi del Chilimangiaro" non esiste in lingua italiana :( mi hai incuriosita tanto!
Se ti interessano le sue storie in italiano il suggerimento obbligato è il leggendario I Quarantanove Racconti - testo importantissimo per come ha influenzato molti scrittori del nostro paese!
Ok. If he wrote about Venice, I'll read the book:)
Best war novel: The Young Lions by Shaw
hi
who are your favorite writers?
Michael Chabon, HP Lovecraft, Thomas Pynchon.
Have you read "The Garden of Eden"? Hemingway left it unfinished after working on it for 15 years and it was only published in 1986 after considerable editing by his publisher, Scribners. More sexually explicit than most Hemingway, he opened some eyes with his ideas about the reversal of gender roles and "sexual transference".
No - I actually didn't know it! Thanks for the suggestion though!
Mattia,sto leggendo Oscar Wao.Non ti ringrazierò mai abbastanza per avermelo fatto conoscere e per avermi fatto avvicinare a Pynchon.
E' o non è la peggio figata? Divertiti!
I'm slowly working my way through his works. I'm currently on The Sun Also Rises which is boring and dragging on though.
What's boring about it? That book is Gold Jerry, Gold!
Nothing happens. It's just sitting in cafés and bars drinking and eating and talking about dull things and then they eventually get on a bus to Spain and it's more stopping at bars to drink and talk about drinking.
So you're impervious to all of the underlying themes that move the story?
Yeah the underlying themes are there but there's nothing particularly interesting or profound about them.
I know what you mean. Honestly, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a much more exciting, brutal book, that actually explores different concepts very deeply. It's very Hemingway but *very* different than his other novels. Don't give up on Hemingway.
why so many writers committed suicide?? I'm curious, I know life is one giant mess but why particularly writers? Personally, I like hermit writers such as Pynchon, Proust and others; makes me feel less alone
#1 The Sun Also Rises
I happened to have been in all too common type glass in my 1st year in college. I scored poorly in basic English exam along with many others. I found myself in dumbbell English. Well for the spring break we were all asked to read Old Man of the sea. The very 1st day we returned to class in dumb bell English the entire class was hostile , bewildered, and upset with teacher. Why? How dare the professor assign a book written for 6th graders to us college guys just out of high school. “Old man” written in this simple line was deeply insulting. The teach was turning red with embarrassment. He said he would never assign another Hemmingway novel in any of his English glasses. He apologized. My thing was reading 19th century European classics. With the teach assigning “old man” I was sure the instructor thought I was retarted.
The American British things definitely true, not just in terms of style but the whole outlook on fiction. Typically American novelists try to write a 2billion page book with two hundred characters across fifty years with countless themes whereas British writers would rather write a perfectly written short story about four friends meeting after work. I remember you saying of death in Venice that German writers tend to write a "scientifically" perfect novel and how that is, generally, uninteresting, and I think that applies to British novelists, they're too fussy whereas American novels are too bloated. As for French novels who the fuck knows?
George Guest have you checked out Jack Kerouac, he’s American but has a book called “on the road” that kinda sounds like the British books you’re describing above
Faulkner is better
Vidpos No he is not. Stop trolling.
lol Faulkner was infinitely better, cant even compare...
No he's not. He's overrated. I've never been able to get into a single Faulkner novel.
They are completely different.
Hemingway was pretentious... a mediocre writer wanting to be good. I seriously laughed while Reading him.
Daniel L Or perhaps you’re a mediocre reader who lacks taste? An appreciation for Hemingway’s writing requires a powerful imagination to produce a lot of the mental imagery because his writing is so simple and straightforward and he doesn’t explain every minor detail the way some other classical authors do. It calls for some work on the reader’s part to “fill in the blanks” so to speak. But what you do get from Hemingway is a writer who lived an adventurous life, deeply understood the human condition, and wrote about it in a way that resonates with many people. Anyone who claims that they did not feel like someone tore open their chest, ripped out their heart and brutally stopped on it at the the end of A Farewell to Arms I would suspect was lacking a heart to begin with. Some writers charms are in the way they make you feel, not what they make you think.
I “seriously laughed” while reading your comment. You should try For Whom the Bell Trolls
Read chapter 10 of the above, also 31, if you will laugh, well, there are doctors for such things, I do doubt you'll have to consult them though.