The storm surges of spring
The storm surges of spring is a novel by Ernest Hemingway , which was published in 1926 under the English title The Torrents of Spring . He was a parody of Sherwood Anderson 's Dark Laughter ( Dark Laughter written).
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In the four parts of the short novel, “Yogi” Johnson and “Scripps” O'Neil are introduced.
- Red and black laugh
Yogi and Scripps work in a pump factory. When the chinook , a warm spring wind, blows over the snow up in Michigan , the workers, mostly Indians, abandon the half-finished pumps and run away. Scripps, too, marches lonely in the snowstorm along the railroad tracks in the direction of Chicago . There is $ 450 in his pocket that he made selling a story. In Chicago, Scripps contemplates land speculation. Meanwhile, he gets stuck in the snow at the Petoskey train station . He stops at Brown's bean room and has hot beans served by the no longer young waitress Diana. His wife left him, says Scripps casually. He has two wives. Diana serves up the incredible story of her origins to Scripps alongside beans. Scripps would like to take a job at Petoskey. And what is there? A pump factory. And who instructs Scripps in the work there? Yogi Johnson!
- The struggle for life
Diana has caught Scripps and is now wasting the day at home as Mrs. Scripps. Scripps himself rose to become a respected pump maker in Petoskey over the course of a year. Diana's only concern is whether she can hold Scripps. Because the husband takes her to Brown's bean room after work . There, Mandy, the young waitress, charms him with high-pitched conversations about fiction. So Diana subscribes to literary papers and learns some of their content by heart in order to shine in front of Scripps. The Scripps couple's love grows cold and Diana notices when that darn spring wind blows through Petoskey again, she can't hold Scripps.
- Men at War and the Death of Society
Driven by the Chinook , Yogi and the other workers flee the Petoskeyer pump factory and march towards Lake Michigan . While resting in the open field, he meets two forest Indians. In contrast to Scripps, Yogi participated in the First World War . So he directed a monologue to the silent Indians on the subject of war. One of the two listeners falls asleep over it. The other lets the Yogi finish speaking and then praises the solid education of the White Chief . Yogi is flattered. The Indian notes, however, that he and his companion are also war veterans. He lists her awards and identifies himself as a major. One of the two Indians had the forearms and lower legs shot to pieces near Ypres . He wears prostheses with squeaky hinges.
The Chinook has run out of breath. That's why the three veterans are going back to Petoskey. The Indians take yogi to a hidden Indian club. A salon Indian in the bar finds Yogi likable and wants to promote him to the club. So he asks him about his tribe. Yogi admits his Swedish origins. All three are thrown out of it. The war veteran loses one of his prosthetic arms when he is thrown out.
- The disappearance of a great race and the rise and ruin of the Americans
Scripps separates from Diana, turns to the attractive Mandy and doubts whether he will stay with her for long. All the actors are gathered in Brown's bean room when Hemingway, at the very symbolic end of the novel, lets a new figure, the naked forest Indian, with her baby on her back, come in from the frosty late winter night. The staff immediately throws the surprise guest out. The undesirable one is the squaw of the Indian with the artificial limbs. The naked woman rises from the snow and walks northward. Yogi follows her into the night and takes off his clothes while walking. The two Indians trot behind them, collect the clothes and return to Petoskey with the bundle. The Chinook rises and roars at full strength.
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The form is as grotesque as the fable. Sentences are repeated monotonously several times in direct succession. The author forces himself on the dear reader with ridiculous explanations .
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- Ernest Hemingway: The storm surges of spring . From the American by Annemarie Horschitz-Horst . 134 pages. Rowohlt Hamburg 1957
- Ernest Hemingway: The storm surges of spring . From the American by Annemarie Horschitz-Horst. Rowohlt Hamburg 1986, ISBN 978-3-498-02809-1
Individual proof
- ^ Paula McLain: Madame Hemingway , Aufbau Verlag , 2011, page 324