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A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean. "The finest story of the outdoors in American literature." --Sports Illustrated A century since its publication in the collection In Our Time, "Big Two-Hearted River" has helped shape language and literature in America and across the globe, and its magnetic pull continues to draw readers, writers, and critics. The story is the best early example of Ernest Hemingway's now-familiar writing style: short sentences, punchy nouns and verbs, few adjectives and adverbs, and a seductive cadence. Easy to imitate, difficult to match. The subject matter of the story has inspired generations of writers to believe that fly fishing can be literature. More than any of his stories, it depends on his 'iceberg theory' of literature, the notion that leaving essential parts of a story unsaid, the underwater portion of the iceberg, adds to its power. Taken in context with his other work, it marks Hemingway's passage from boyish writer to accomplished author: nothing big came before it, novels and stories poured out after it. --from the foreword by John N. Maclean Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Review of the Mariner Classics Kindle ebook (May 9, 2023), with an Introduction by John N. Maclean with Illustrations by Chris Wormell, of the original short story written from 1923-24 and first published in the Boni & Liveright 1925 edition of 'In Our Time.'
Big Two-Hearted River is probably one of the most analyzed of Ernest Hemingway's short stories. It is a famous example of his 'iceberg theory' where the main subject of the story is hidden from the view of the reader, just as the bulk of an iceberg is hidden underwater. In this case, it is the story of a solo camping and fishing expedition by Nick Adams, a fictional proxy of the author, in which he seeks to blot out memories of his injuries and trauma from the First World War. The war itself is never mentioned, but at various times Nick views, but avoids, a nearby swamp, which stands as a metaphor for his wartime experiences.
This Centennial edition is enhanced by an extended introduction by journalist & writer John N. Maclean, son of Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories (1976) and a dozen commissioned prints by artist Chris Wormell which illustrate the story's events.
See image at https://i.pinimg.com/736x/db/fa/58/dbfa585a5c2ba5b084b0b793a4195834--printmaking...
A lino print of a rainbow trout by artist Chris Wormell. There are other Wormell black & white fish prints in this edition of 'Big Two-Hearted River,' but I could not locate an online link for any of those. This image is sourced from Pinterest.
Big Two-Hearted River is also an excellent example of writer and mentor Gertrude Stein's influence on early Hemingway. Her more experimental repetitive style (most famously exemplified by the quote "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose") is regularly adopted by Hemingway as words repeat or are echoed in the short declarative sentences which submerge you into a visceral experience of building a camp, cooking food and fishing a river.
Stein was also key in advising Hemingway to cut a major portion of the text, which later appeared as On Writing in various posthumous editions such as The Nick Adams stories (1972) and The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector's Edition (2017). Stein's advice to make the cut was: "Hemingway, remarks are not literature."
I'll leave the last word to writer Tim O'Brien:
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For some reason, my Kindle highlights for this book are not viewable or shareable on Goodreads, but I did enter them as status updates which you can view here. ( )