The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and other Stories - Ernest Hemingway
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and other Stories - Ernest Hemingway
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and other Stories - Ernest Hemingway
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and other Stories - Ernest Hemingway

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"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway.

Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro".

The story was eventually adapted to the screen as the Zoltan Korda film The Macomber Affair (1947).

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About the Book

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a third-person omniscient narrative with moments of unreliable interior monologue presented mainly through the points of view of the two leading male characters, Francis Macomber and Robert Wilson.

Francis Macomber and his wife Margot are on a big-game safari In Africa. We learn from the white, professional hunter and guide, Robert Wilson, that the "gun-bearers" and "personal boys" speak Yorùbá and sometimes receive illegal lashings. Earlier, Francis had panicked when a wounded lion charged him, and Margot mocks Macomber for his cowardice. Wilson is critical of Macomber, presented in interior monologue, but outwardly tries to shepherd Macomber toward a more accepted "code" practiced by experienced hunters. This is Francis' thirty-five-year-old "coming of age" story.

In flash-back, we experience Francis' cowardly run from his wounded and charging lion, dispatched by a scornful Wilson. We also learn of Margot's adultery with Wilson on the night after. Though Macomber hates Wilson he seems to “need” him. As Wilson puts it, this is Francis' chance to come of age, to become a man.

The next day the party hunts Cape buffalo. Macomber and Wilson hunt together and shoot three, killing two but merely wounding the first, which retreats into the bush. Macomber now feels confident. All three drink whisky in celebration. Margot shows anger for Francis' kill and transition from fear into confidence. Wilson senses a shift in her attitude toward her husband: feeling she now fears her husband's growing confidence. Wilson is proud of Francis and feels his job as guide is done. He has helped Francis stand up to his adulterous wife and has helped him kill a buffalo. He even camps with a double cot in his tent in order to provide better service to women who feel a safari is not complete without sleeping with him; to him, he is merely satisfying men and women's glorification of him as "the great white hunter."

The gun-bearers report that the first buffalo has not died and has gone into the tall grass. Wilson refocuses on Macomber and helps him track the wounded buffalo, ominously paralleling the previous day's lion hunt. Macomber, however, is confident this time, courageous. Wilson is again proud.

When they find the buffalo, it charges Macomber. He stands his ground and fires, but his shots are too high. Wilson shoots as well, but the buffalo keeps charging. At the same time, Margot fires a shot from the car, which hits Macomber in the head and kills him.

As told by the omniscient narrator, “… and Mrs. Macomber, in the car, had shot at the buffalo with the 6.5 Mannlicher as it seemed about to gore Macomber and had hit her husband about two inches up and a little to one side of the base of his skull …”

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author 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. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, and 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. In 1922, 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. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.

After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from Spanish Civil War where he had acted as a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II; during which he was present at the Normandy Landings and liberation of Paris.

Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two plane crashes that left him in pain and ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.

Langue
Anglaise
Dimensions
120 mm x 200 mm
Edition
KITEBCOM Publishing & Distribution
Collection
Novel
Auteur
Ernest Hemingway
Poids
87 pages
Nombre de pages
95 pages
Date de Parution
2023
Série
The Complete Short Stories
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