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Cargando... Hemingway's Paris: A Writer's City in Words and Imagespor Robert Wheeler
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. How Paris affected Hemingway during the time he lived there. Not much new here, but the photographs that accompany the text are stunning ( ) This is a lovely book of contemporary black & white photographs of various Hemingway-related sites in Paris. Although the photography is present-day, views of people and modern day buildings are kept to a minimum, which definitely gives you the illusion of seeing these locales as if you were viewing them in the 1920's when Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley came to Paris and the writer began his career. Hemingway's Paris memoir "A Moveable Feast" is the main reference point of his works to this travel/photography companion. It was actually somewhat surprising how many of the apartments, hotels, cafes and bar/restaurants from those days are still around or even in business! Shakespeare and Co. is another touchstone here, but as the author admits the current bookstore is in a new locale, different from that of Sylvia Beach's that Hemingway was familiar with. This is highly recommended for Hemingway and Moveable Feast fans! It could, however, have done with a bit more copy/editing, especially for something luxury priced as it is (it retails for $34.99 here in Canada). Calling the memoir "A Moveable Feast" a novel (page 26), book seller and publisher Sylvia Beach a fellow writer (page 32) and having the blurb on page 108 refer to a non-existent photo of Marcel Proust's apartment on page 109 make it seem like something was rushed in the final production here. So a star/point off for that. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway. In gorgeous black and white images, Hemingway's Paris depicts a story of remarkable passion--for a city, a woman, and a time. No other city in any of his travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris. And it remains there, all of the complexity, beauty, and intrigue that Hemingway described in the pages of so much of his work. It is all still there for the reader and traveler to experience--the history, the streets, and the city. Restaurants, hotels, homes, sites and favorite bars are all detailed here. The ninety-five black and white photographs in Hemingway's Paris are of the highest caliber. The accompanying text reveals Wheeler's deep understanding of the man; his torment, talent, obstacles and the places of refuge needed to nurture one of the preeminent writers of the twentieth century. Moved by the humanistic writing of the man--a writer capable of transcending his readers to foreign settings and into the hearts and minds of his protagonists--Wheeler was inspired to travel throughout France, Italy, Spain, Africa, and Cuba, where he has sought to gain insight into the motivation behind Hemingway's books and short stories. As a teacher, lecturer, and photojournalist, he set out to capture and interpret the Paris that Ernest Hemingway experienced in the first part of the century. Through his journal and photographs, Wheeler portrays the intimate connection Hemingway had with the woman he never stopped loving, Hadley, and with the city he loved most, Paris. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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