Saturday, February 28, 2015

List of Books by Hemingway

I'm on a personal challenge to read all the published material that Hemingway wrote. My goal is to read all of his works by the end of 2015.

A list of books and poems that Hemingway wrote. 

Born:
  • 1899 Born in Oak Park, Illinois, USA 
Died: 
  • 1961 Died in Ketchum, Idaho, USA
Age: 61 

Read: 13
Unread: 22
Saturday Feb. 28th, 2015:
Update: After reading ten of his books, there's a pattern, or theme, of material that I find that he repeats quite often: the first world war, a man away from america in Italy or Spain, A writer in France, Bullfighting, heavy drinking, a woman he's in love with that is ambivalent towards him, and always concerned with the essence of manhood. I enjoy Hemingway's works quite much. He is consistently concerned with manhood, and what a man really does or really says or really thinks. In this way, I prefer him to Steinbeck, because Steinbeck seems to always have an ulterior motive in writing, usually to draw attention to the plight of the poor, or the laborer vs. the owner, or the down-trodden man. While interesting, it tends to get a bit much and heavy handed. Hemingway is not concerned with any of this, and he seems to be content with writing the simple truths of what a man is or is not in the world. 


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