[lit-ideas] Re: Hemingway, was A little Friday humor
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:15:58 -0700
Andy wrote
Now that I wiggled out of that one, I was wondering if you all would
like to read Hemingway's A Clean Well Lighted Place. I got bitten by
the Hemingway bug I guess over ten years ago and never did anything
with it. I have a sneaking suspicion that he's underrated, maybe
seriously so. I finally just today read A Clean Well Lighted Place
and it's beautiful. It's only four pages long and is just overflowing
with, I'm not sure what. Existentialism? Here's a link to a really
nice video version of it. The accents are Irish so I guess it's
Irish. It's pretty true to the story except Hemingway uses Spanish in
his story, and the last paragraph is left out, which I think is an
important omission.
I take it you mean that the video is Irish. Hemingway's dialog is in
Spanish because the story was set in a small town in Spain. To leave out
the last paragraph is to in effect destroy the story. But after all, it
is only a story. Many must have read it.
Robert Paul,
looking for his cat in the rain
Other related posts:
