名人轶事:作家海明威的一生(2)

VOICE ONE:

I'M Shirley Griffith

VOICE TWO:

AND I'M Doug Johnson with people in America, a program about people who are

important in the history of the United States. Today we present the second

part of the story of Ernest Hemingway's life and writings.

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voice one:

At twenty-five, Hemingway was living in Paris. He was a famous writer. But

the end of his first marriage made him want to leave the place where he had

first become famous

Years later he said, "the city was never to be the same again. When I

returned to it, I found it had changed as I had changed. Paris was never the

same as when I was poor and very happy."

voice two:

Hemingway and his new wife returned to the United States in nineteen-twenty-

eight. They settled in Key West, an island with a fishing port near the

southern coast of Florida.

Before leaving Paris, Hemingway sent a collection of his stories to New York

to be published. The book of stories, called "men without women," was

published soon after Hemingway arrived in Key west.

One of the stories was called "the killers 1." in it, Hemingway used a

discussion 2 between two men to create a feeling of tension 3 and coming

violence. This was a new method of telling a story:

storyteller:

Nick opened the door and went into the room. Ole Andreson was lying on the

bed with all his clothes on. He had been a heavyweight Prizefighter and he

was too long for the bed. He lay with his head on two Pillows. He did not

look at nick.

"What was it?" he asked.

"I was up at Henry's," nick said, "and two fellows came in and tied me up and

the cook, and they said they were going to kill you."

It sounded silly when he said it. Ole Andreson said nothing.

"They put us out in the kitchen," nick went on. "They were going to shoot you

when you came in to supper."

Ole Andreson looked at the wall and did not say anything. "George thought i

ought to come and tell you about it."

"There isn't anything i can do about it," ole Andreson said.

Voice one:

Any new book by Hemingway was an important event for readers. But stories

like "the killers" shocked many people. Some thought there was too much

violence in his stories. Others said he only wrote about Gunmen, Soldiers,

Fighters, and Drinkers.

This kind of criticism 4 made Hemingway angry. He felt that writers should not

be judged by those who could not write a story.
Voice two:

Hemingway was happy in Key west. In the morning he wrote, in the afternoon he

fished, and at night he went to a public house and drank. One old fisherman

said: "Hemingway was a man who talked slowly and very carefully. He asked a

lot of questions. And he always wanted to get his information exactly right."

Hemingway and his wife Pauline had a child in Key west. Soon afterward 5 he

heard that his father had killed himself. Hemingway was shocked. He said, "my

father taught me so much. He was the only one i really cared about."

When Hemingway returned to work there was a sadness about his writing that

was not there before.

His new book told about an American soldier who served with the italian army

during world war one. He meets an English nurse, and they fall in love. They

flee from the army, but she dies during childbirth. Some of the events are

taken from Hemingway's service in Italy. The book is called a Farewell to

arms.