The Nick Adams Stories

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Ernest Hemingway 1918

Nick Adams is the protagonist of several short stories by Ernest Hemingway .

Hemingway wrote the short stories during the twenties and thirties. The character Nick Adams has strongly autobiographical traits, it shares with Hemingway the origin, the family constellation and certain life experiences.

Taken together and in the chronology of Nick Adams' life, the stories resemble an evolutionary novel . Indian camp and The Doctor and his wife portray Nick as a boy accompanied by his beloved father. Ten Indians , The End of Something and Three Days of Storm are about the adolescent's first love experiences. In The Fighter and The Killer , Nick experiences his first adventures outside of the familiar provincial surroundings. I'm tired, go to rest , In another country and As you will never be are stories from the First World War, in which Nick Adams (like Hemingway) takes part on the side of the Italian army. Snow over the country is a skier's story and takes place in the Alps, but with echoes of the homesickness of the American living in Europe. In Big-hearted double current Nick Adams returns to his homeland. Fathers and Sons begins with Nick Adams' memories of his youth and ends the circle of stories when Nick, who now has a son himself, tells him about his grandfather.

Nick Adams Stories

The forests in the north

  • Three shots ( Three Shots )
  • Indian bearing ( Indian Camp )
  • The doctor and his wife ( The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife )
  • Ten Indians ( Ten Indians )
  • When the Indians journeyed ( The Indians moved away )

On your own two feet

  • The light of the world ( The Light of the World )
  • The Fighter ( The Battler )
  • The Killer ( The Killers )
  • The last good land ( The Last Good Country )
  • Over the Mississippi ( Crossing the Mississippi )

war

  • The night before landing ( Night before landing )
  • "Nick sat against the wall ..." ( "Nick sat against the wall ..." )
  • I'm tired, go to rest ( Now I Lay Me )
  • Just as you will never be ( A Way You'll Never Be )
  • A Farewell ( In Another Country )

return

  • Big-hearted double current ( Big Two-Hearted River )
  • The End of Something ( The End of Something )
  • Three days Sturm ( The Three-Day Blow )
  • People in summer ( Summer People )

As a couple

  • Wedding Day ( Wedding Day )
  • Writing ( On Writing )
  • A mountain idyll ( An Alpine Idyll )
  • Snow above the country ( Cross-Country Snow )
  • Fathers and Sons ( Fathers and Sons )

expenditure

The Nick Adams Stories first appeared in scattered places, including magazines, and then in various anthologies. For example, of the fourteen short stories in Men Without Women, five are Nick Adams Stories. Likewise, some were of the Nick Adams stories in the anthology published in 1925 In Our Time (dt. In our time ) was added. In 1972 an anthology was published under the title The Nick Adams Stories , which, however, does not contain all of the Nick Adams stories, but some texts from Hemingway's estate.

  • current German edition: Ernest Hemingway, Die Nick-Adams-Stories . With a foreword by Philip Young. German by Annemarie Horschitz-Horst and Richard K. Flesch. Reinbek near Hamburg 1999. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, rororo 15091.

Literature on the Nick Adams Stories

  • Philip Young: The Experience of Nick Adams. Ernest Hemingway's "In Our Time". In: Gerhard Hoffmann (Ed.): American literature of the 20th century. Volume 1: The art of narration (= interpretations. 11 = Fischer pocket books. 6030, books of knowledge ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-436-01444-3 , pp. 147-168.

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