The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

这本海明威短篇全集最引争议之处，恰是它被反复提及的“大男孩主义”与冰山风格。不少读者坦言：开篇惊艳，越往后越平淡，有的故事“压根听不懂”，甚至有人因此搁置、流失兴趣。它不适合追求情节跌宕的轻松阅读——有人断断续续读满十个月，靠贴标签才熬完最后百分之十。然而正是这种克制，构成了它的独特价值：表面的故事之下藏着巨大的“水下冰山”，看懂评论才惊觉其深。它适合愿意慢下来、主动补白、与人物孤独对峙的读者；也适合将其作为理解海明威文学观的标本。若你期待卡夫卡式的与生命紧密相连，这里或许会让你失望；但若你想体会“不说之说”的力量，它值得一试。

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian Front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929). In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. He published his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926. After his 1927 divorce from Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940; they separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. He was present at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his remaining life. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, (1930s) and Cuba (1940s and 1950s), and in 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where he killed himself in mid-1961.