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E-kniha Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway, The Wild Years
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Ernest Hemingway[21.7.1899-2.7.1961] Americký prozaik, žurnalista a esejista, autor moderního románu a povídky. Ernest Miller Hemingway se narodil v Oak Parku (Illinois). Psal převážně o mužích vedoucích nebezpečný způsob života (např. o vojácích, rybářích a lovcích), respektive o toreadorech provozujících býčí zápasy. Jeho díla jsou oslavou jejich odvahy, ale také sondou do jejich psychologie a do pozadí jejich skutků. Pod vlivem modernistických...
Ernest Hemingway: životopis, dílo, citáty
GETTING INTO GERMANY QUITE A JOB
In Paris they said it was very difficult to get into Germany. No tourists allowed. No newspaper men wanted. The German consulate will not visa a passport without a letter from a consulate or chamber of commerce in Germany saying, under seal, it is necessary for the traveler to come to Germany for a definite business transaction. The day I called at the consulate it had been instructed to amend the rules to permit invalids to enter for the “cure” if they produced a certificate from the doctor of the health resort they were to visit showing the nature of their ailment.
“We must preserve the utmost strictness,” said the German consul and reluctantly and suspiciously after much consultation of files gave me a visa good for three weeks.
“How do we know you will not write lies about Germany?” he said before he handed back the passport.
“Oh, cheer up,” I said.
To get the visa. I had given him a letter from our embassy, printed on stiff crackling paper and bearing an enormous red seal which informed “whom it may concern,” that Mr. Hemingway, the bearer, was well and favorably k…
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