Boris Vejdovsky - Hemingway: Homenaje a una vida - 2011

Fifty years after his death, Ernest Hemingway —one of the greatest novelists in history— continues to capture attention around the world. A colossus of letters, he faced any risk and placed courage, both physical and moral, at the pinnacle of his values. Boxer, hunter, fan of bullfighting, war correspondent and even secret agent, he turned those extreme experiences into a distinctive, unparalleled style that renewed the literature of his era. A friend and contemporary of Fitzgerald, Joyce, and Dos Passos, Nobel Prize winner in 1954, he left behind a vast, rich, and ever-present body of work. Works such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea have shaped our individual and collective memories. The description given by his confidante Marlene Dietrich remains relevant: “Ernest has found time to do things that most men only dream of.” Approaching Hemingway’s life and work, as this book proposes, is to catch his courage to overcome fear, break resignation, explore one’s own limits, and forge one’s destiny. A book, with more than 300 photographs and documents from the Boston Hemingway Collection, many unpublished, this intimate and passionate volume pays tribute to the man, the adventurer, and the writer.