Hemingway's Paris (eBook)

A Writer's City in Words and Images

Robert Wheeler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
208 Seiten
Yucca Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63158-053-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway.In gorgeous black and white images, Hemingways Paris depicts a story of remarkable passionfor 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 experiencethe 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 Hemingways Paris are of the highest caliber. The accompanying text reveals Wheelers 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 mana writer capable of transcending his readers to foreign settings and into the hearts and minds of his protagonistsWheeler was inspired to travel throughout France, Italy, Spain, Africa, and Cuba, where he has sought to gain insight into the motivation behind Hemingways 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.

Autor

Robert Wheeler has been a Hemingway enthusiast since reading his first Hemingway novel in 1986. For the past ten years, he has been a professor at Southern New Hampshire University where he teaches courses in writing and on Hemingway. He was the recipient of the coveted Excellence in Teaching Award for 2006. He lives in New Castle, New Hampshire with his wife, Meme, and daughters, Emma and Helen.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1920s • 1964 • accompanying • America • ands movable • black-and-white • booklist • books on 1920s books on paris his • books on boulevards • books on emotional strengths • books on escargots • books on leaps • books on madox fords • books on moveable feasts • books on paris streets • books on rises • books on toronto stars • books on white photographs • books on white photos • Boulevard • Cafes • Cote • Cuba • declarative sentence • des lilas • deux magots • Earliest • emotional strength • escargots • ford madox • France • Gertrude Stein • hadley • huffington • iceberg theory • influential relationships • juxtapose • LEAP • les deux • madox ford • Maxwell Perkins • Metro • MICHEL • modernist • Montparnasse • mountain press • moveable feast • Paris • paris connection • paris history • paris streets • photographic tribute • photography • rises • robert gajdusek robert wheeler • rue de • Scott Fitzgerald • scribner • secondary literature • seven-eighths • similar title • Submersion • toronto star • visit paris • Visually • vivid photographs • vivid portraits • white photographs • white photos • write seriously • wrote twenty
• ISBN-10: 1-63158-053-1 / 1631580531
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63158-053-6 / 9781631580536