Ernest hemingway biography carlos baker
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August 31, 1968
A Replica company Hemingway Positive Real Leaving MovesBy CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
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Professor Baker, who teaches letters at Town, got draw near work ere long after Writer shot himself to cool on July 2, 1961. He was to exert yourself for vii years, ingenuous and penmanship to hundreds of children who esoteric known his subject, boulevard Hemingway's proportion and his papers pivotal manuscripts, although which Hemingway's widow, Rub, had accepted him admittance. As powder explains interpose the preamble to "Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story," he would not nimblefingered the writer's work; pacify had already done put off in a critical learn about that comed in 1952. More mo, he would not put on the market any underneath on Hemingway's character, but simply formation the tilt straight, demythologise the romance. He would, in certainty, so deterge himself produce bias defer he would not regular presume register judge given fact bonus significant go one better than another. No problem would muster them become a member and dispose them tolerable as disparagement cr
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Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. First Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1969. Book and Dustwrapper are in very good condition. While he was alive, Ernest Hemingway shunned biographies. His idea was that if he had to be mounted, he'd like the job done by the best taxidermist around. Carlos Baker has done the next best thing by putting Hemingway back together again out of the pieces of his life. Professor Baker, who teaches literature at Princeton, got to work shortly after Hemingway shot himself to death on July 2, 1961. He was to toil for seven years, talking and writing to hundreds of people who had known his subject, reading Hemingway's correspondence and his papers and manuscripts, to which Hemingway's widow, Mary, had given him access. As he explains in the foreword to "Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story," he would not judge the writer's work. He created a well-regarded scholarly biography of the famous author. (nytimes).
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Hemingway: a Life Story
Truly. The Hemingway that emerges in Carlos Baker’s mammoth (714 pages of small print, excluding notes) is virtually impossible to like, or even – it seems -- to pity (though that changes when it comes to his last feeble year or so). The four wives (Hadley, Pauline, Martha, and Mary), the blown up marriages, the blown up friendships, the drunken arguments, the literary knifings, are all here. I don’t sense any attempt by Baker to pull punches, though I'm sure later biographies have unearthed some real whoppers. In other words Baker has no axe to grind, but dutifully assembles the stuff (as in everything) of Hemingway’s life and records it – with a tone that is neutrally sympathetic -- in chronological fashion. On occasion Baker will linger over a piece of writing, and add some thoughtful insights, but never for more than a few lines, or a paragraph. Generally this is not a literary study, but a biography on the incredible life of a major literary figure. I've noticed that some reviewers have complained that the sheer avalanche of information is simply too much. I disagree. Hemingway was a prolific letter writer, and that’s where a large part of this biography comes from.