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Ernest Miller Hemingway [ˈɝnɪst ˈmɪlɚ ˈhɛmɪŋˌweɪ], né le 21 juillet 1899 à Oak Park dans l'Illinois aux États-Unis et mort le 2 juillet 1961 à Ketchum , est un écrivain, journaliste et correspondant de guerre américain.

Son style d'écriture, caractérisé par l'économie et la litote, a influencé le roman du XXe siècle, comme l'ont fait sa vie d'aventurier et l'image publique qu'il entretenait. Il a écrit la plupart de ses œuvres entre le milieu des années 1920 et le milieu des années 1950, et sa carrière a culminé en 1954 lorsqu'il a remporté le prix Nobel de littérature. Ses romans ont rencontré un grand succès auprès du public du fait de la véracité avec laquelle il dépeignait ses personnages. Plusieurs de ses œuvres furent élevées au rang de classiques de la littérature américaine. Il a publié de son vivant sept romans, six recueils de nouvelles et deux œuvres non romanesques. Trois romans, quatre recueils de nouvelles et trois œuvres non romanesques ont été publiés à titre posthume.

Hemingway est né et a grandi à Oak Park, une ville située en banlieue ouest de Chicago dans l'Illinois. Après avoir quitté le lycée, il a travaillé pendant quelques mois en tant que journaliste reporter au Kansas City Star, avant de partir pour le front italien et devenir ambulancier pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, ce qui a servi de fondement à son roman L'Adieu aux armes. Il fut grièvement blessé et passa alors plus de trois mois à l'hôpital. À sa sortie, il s'engagea dans l'armée italienne. En 1922, Hemingway épousa Hadley Richardson, la première de ses quatre épouses, et le couple s'installa à Paris où il travailla comme correspondant étranger. Au cours de cette période, il rencontra des écrivains et des artistes modernistes des années 1920 de la communauté expatriée connus sous le nom de Génération perdue, dont certains exercèrent sur lui une influence significative. Son premier roman, Le Soleil se lève aussi, a été écrit en 1926.

Après avoir divorcé d'Hadley Richardson en 1927, Hemingway épousa Pauline Pfeiffer mais ils divorcèrent après le retour d'Hemingway d'Espagne où il avait couvert la guerre civile espagnole, qui lui permit d'écrire Pour qui sonne le glas. Martha Gellhorn devint sa troisième épouse en 1940, mais il la quitta pour Mary Welsh après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, période pendant laquelle il fut présent le jour du débarquement en Normandie et celui de la libération de Paris.

Peu de temps après la publication du Vieil homme et la mer, en 1952, qui lui valut le prix Pulitzer en 1953, Hemingway participa à un safari en Afrique, où il faillit être tué dans un accident d'avion qui le laissa perclus de douleurs et en mauvaise santé pour le reste de sa vie.

Hemingway avait habité à Key West, en Floride et à La Havane pendant les années 1930 et 1940, mais, en 1959, il quitta Cuba pour Ketchum, dans l'Idaho, où il se suicide au cours de l'été 1961. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. juillet 1899 – 2. juillet 1961  •  Autres noms Ernest Miller Hemingway, Ernst Hemingway
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“Il n'y a pas d'ami aussi fidèle qu'un livre.”

Ernest Hemingway

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“Faites toujours sobre ce que vous avez dit que vous feriez quand vous étiez ivre. Cela vous apprendra à vous taire !”

Ernest Hemingway

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“Il n'y a rien de noble à être supérieur à son prochain; la vraie noblesse est d'être supérieur à votre ancien moi.”

Ernest Hemingway

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“Nous avons bien mangé pour pas trop cher, et nous avons bien bu pour pas trop cher et nous avons dormi bien au chaud ensemble et nous nous sommes aimés.”

Ernest Hemingway

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“Un homme intelligent est parfois forcé d'être ivre pour passer du temps avec ses imbéciles.”

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Ernest Hemingway Citations

“Si deux personnes s'aiment, il ne peut y avoir de fin heureuse.”

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“Nul homme n’est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d’un continent et chaque fois que tu entends sonner le glas, ne demande pas pour qui il sonne, il sonne pour toi."
--Ernest Hemingway, “Pour qui sonne le glas”?”

Ernest Hemingway livre Pour qui sonne le glas

For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Grace under pressure.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Dans la vie, il faut [d'abord] durer.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Le lendemain matin, le gamin entr'ouvrit la porte et passa la tête. Le vieux dormait toujours. Le temps était trop mauvais pour que les bateaux pussent sortir; aussi le gamin avait-il dormi tard. Comme les matins précédents, il était venu. D'abord, il s'assura que le vieux respirait. Ensuite il vit les mains et pleura. Sans bruit il sortit et courut chercher du café. Il pleurait en dévalant la côte.”

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Le viel homme et la mer, 1952

“Comme apparence, il avait un des visages les plus laids qu'on puisse trouver hors d'une cage à singes, un corps assez bien, mûr, mais aux jointures plutôt épaisses, et l'air content de soi d'un acteur en vogue.”

Ernest Hemingway livre Mort dans l'après-midi

Mort dans l'après-midi, 1938

“C'est en voyant la femelle du taureau de combat qu'on saisit le plus clairement la différence entre l'animal sauvage et l'animal domestique.”

Ernest Hemingway livre Mort dans l'après-midi

Mort dans l'après-midi, 1938

“On était à présent dans la saison des ouragans; quand il n'y a pas d'ouragan en train, c'est le plus beau temps de l'année.”

Ernest Hemingway

Le viel homme et la mer, 1952

“Ça m'empêchera pas de le tuer, dit-il; tout superbe et formidable qu'il soit.”

Ernest Hemingway

Le viel homme et la mer, 1952

“C'est seulement par sa conduite sous la pique que l'on peut juger et apprécier la bravoure d'un taureau; et la bravoure c'est la racine du taureau espagnol.”

Ernest Hemingway livre Mort dans l'après-midi

Mort dans l'après-midi, 1938

“Les premières étoiles se montraient. […] bientôt toutes ses amies lointaines parsèmeraient le ciel. - Le poisson aussi est mon ami, dit-il tout haut. […] Pourtant faut que je le tue. Heureusement qu'on est pas obligé de tuer les étoiles!”

Ernest Hemingway

Le viel homme et la mer, 1952

“Dans tous les arts, le plaisir croît avec la connaissance que l'on a d'eux.”

Ernest Hemingway livre Mort dans l'après-midi

Mort dans l'après-midi, 1938

“Dans la cabane, là-bas, tout en haut, le vieux s'était rendormi. Il gisait toujours sur le ventre. Le gamin, assis à côté de lui, le regardait dormir. Le vieux rêvait de lions.”

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Le viel homme et la mer, 1952

“Si vous avez la chance d’avoir vécu jeune homme à Paris, où que vous alliez pour le reste de votre vie, cela ne vous quitte pas, car Paris est une fête.”

Ernest Hemingway livre Paris est une fête

A Moveable Feast

“Le pis c'est quand vous êtes séparé d'un ami par l'esprit.”

Ernest Hemingway livre Paris est une fête

A Moveable Feast

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“Tu es ma religion. Tu es tout ce que j'ai.”

Ernest Hemingway

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“Voulez-vous s'il vous plaît s'il vous plaît s'il vous plaît s'il vous plaît s'il vous plaît s'il vous plaît s'il vous plaît s'il vous plaît arrêter de parler?”

Ernest Hemingway

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“Écrivez avec force et avec clarté ce qui fait mal.”

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“Non, c'est le grand sophisme: la sagesse des vieillards. Ils ne deviennent pas sages. Ils deviennent prudents.”

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Ernest Hemingway: Citations en anglais

“All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.”

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A Letter from Cuba (1934)

“The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre Mort dans l'après-midi

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 10

“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre Islands in the Stream

Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 8
Islands in the Stream (1970)

“Red Dog smiled. 'I would like you to meet my friends Mr Sitting Bull, Mr Poisoned Buffalo, and Chief Running Skunk-Backwards.'
'Sitting Bull's a name I know,' Yogi remarked, shaking hands.
'Oh, I'm not one of those Sitting Bulls,' Mr Sitting Bull said.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre The Torrents of Spring

Part 3, Ch. 2
The Torrents of Spring (1926)

“Any man can face death but to be committed to bring it as close as possible while performing certain classic movements and do this again and again and again and then deal it out yourself with a sword to an animal weighing half a ton which you love is more complicated than just facing death. It is facing your performance as a creative artist each day and your necessity to function as a skillful killer. Antonio had to kill quickly and mercifully and still give the bull one full chance at him when he crossed over the horn at least twice a day.
Everyone in bullfighting helps everyone else in bullfighting in the ring. In spite of all rivalries and hatreds it is the closest brotherhood there is. Only bullfighters know the risks they run and what the bull can do with his horns to their bodies and their minds.”

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Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 9

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

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Hemingway's famous phrase in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (20 April 1926), published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker. In the letter, he wrote that he was "not referring to guts but to something else." The phrase was later used by Dorothy Parker in a profile of Hemingway, "The Artist's Reward," in the New Yorker (30 November 1929)

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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre Paris est une fête

Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 1

“Luis Miguel had the pride of the devil and a feeling of absolute superiority that was justified in many things. He had said so long that he was the best that he really believed it. He had to believe it to go on. It was not just something he believed. It was his belief.”

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Luis Miguel Dominguin was another famous bullfighter and friend of Hemingway's.
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 10

“For our dead are a part of the earth of Spain now and the earth of Spain can never die.”

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"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)

“Ay,' he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

“The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.”

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Pt. 3, Ch.12
Papa Hemingway (1966)

“Only three things in my life I've really liked to do - hunt, write and make love.”

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Pt. 2, Ch. 5
Papa Hemingway (1966)

“Antonio always prayed in the room before the fight at the last when the well-wishers and the followers were gone. If there was time at the ring nearly everyone slipped into the chapel to pray once before the paseo. Antonio knew I prayed for him and never for myself. I was not fighting and I had quit praying for myself during the Spanish Civil War when I saw the terrible things that happened to other people and I felt that to pray for oneself was selfish and egotistical.”

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Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 9

“What a business. You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything. There was never any of what this is. You think that is one thing you will never have. And then, on a lousy show like this, co-ordinating two chicken-crut guerilla bands to help you blow a bridge under impossible conditions, to abort a counter-offensive that will probably already be started, you run into a girl like this Maria.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre Pour qui sonne le glas

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 13

“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”

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Nobel Prize Speech (1954)

“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”

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Preface to The Great Crusade (1940) by Gustav Regler

“Like all truly brave people Antonio is light-hearted and likes to joke and make fun of serious things.”

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Hemingway is describing his friend, the famous bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez.
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 3

“You can have true affection for only a few things in your life, and by getting rid of material things, I make sure I won't waste mine on something that can't feel my affection.”

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Pt. 2, Ch. 5
Papa Hemingway (1966)

“If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.”

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A Letter from Cuba (1934)

“In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.”

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"In Another Country" in Men Without Women (1927).

“As long as all our dead live in the Spanish earth, and they will live as long as the earth lives, no system of tyranny ever will prevail in Spain.”

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"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)

“You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.'
'What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?'
'Write how you are but make it straight.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre Islands in the Stream

Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 10
Islands in the Stream (1970)

“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently… Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.”

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Paris Review interview (1958)

“When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.”

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As quoted in Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Co. (1974) by James Mellow

“Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it — although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.”

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Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (15 September 1927); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“I have a good life but I must write because if I do not write a certain amount I do not enjoy the rest of my life.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre Green Hills of Africa

Part I, Ch. 1
Green Hills of Africa (1935)

“I am no romantic glorifier of the Spanish woman, nor did I ever think of a casual piece as anything much other than a casual piece in any country. But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that or thought that it could happen.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre Pour qui sonne le glas

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 13

“He always thought of the sea as la mar, which is what people call her in spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her, but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fisherman, those who used buoys as floats for their lines or had motorboats bought when the shark lovers had much money, spoke of her as el mar, which is masculine, they spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine, as something that gave or withheld great favors. If she did wild or wicked things, it is because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”

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Ernest Hemingway livre The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”

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Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Papa Hemingway (1966)

“I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”

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Ernest Hemingway

Letter (21 February 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

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