My Reading of Hemingway’s ‘Across the River’ – 14 June 2023

My Reading of Hemingway’s ‘Across the River and into The Trees' – (5:15 min) Audio Mp3 https://xenagoguevicene.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/14june2023am8hemingway_25850146_1686744752.mp3
I completed Ernest Hemingway’s “Across the River and Into the Trees.” The work seems like an idea for a magazine article stretched out to book length. A short book, an alleged novel. The main idea is that a crusty fifty-year-old US Army colonel is in Italy and he has a beautiful nineteen-year-old woman who is hopelessly and inexplicably in love with the crusty old codger.

Hemingway has been on sale on Audible one of the audiobook services I use. Librivox is free, but the readings vary from professional volunteers who just have to work to show what they can do… to people who remind me of being in a classroom hearing one of the students standing and reading to the class, charming in its own way, but…

Because of the sale I got a number of Hemingway works I’ve been meaning to get around to. When I was in high school Hemingway was a top choice for students because his books were short, respected, and easy to understand. A favorite was one of the shortest novels by Hemingway ‘The Old Man and The Sea’ which won a Nobel Prize.

I just recently read and listened to ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’ I have seen a couple of movie versions, so I had a good idea of the narrative. An old man thinks about the past and catches a big one, but the sharks eat his catch. Life explained in a short boat story. ....