Short stories

The short stories of Ernest Hemingway are not only the best of his work, but also fundamental to understanding the century.

«The best and most vibrant of his work [were] his magnificent collections of short stories, compiled by Lumen in a directly essential volume. [...] With terse and direct prose, they show that Hemingway was a master. [...] A small masterpiece.»
José Martínez, Cultura Fnac

This edition retrieves the compilation that Hemingway himself made of all his short stories in 1938, known as The First Forty-Nine Stories, where masterful stories such as «The Killers», «The Snows of Kilimanjaro» or «Fathers and Sons» can be found.

Hemingway's aesthetic and moral world is distilled here, dry, sober, dazzling, latent. Hunting, fishing, boxing, war, alcohol, desire or defeat are some of the materials with which this work is built, whose breath endures with unexpected vigor.

Critics have said:

«Visiting it has given me the disturbing impression that the colossal Assyrian and Egyptian statues half-buried in the desert sand caused to travelers in the nineteenth century. Giants that recalled a barbaric world, fortunately overcome by Western democracies. Travelers would pose next to a stone index finger ten times taller than themselves, with their pith helmets in hand and smiling beatifically. To their happiness, the explorers knew that those archaic monsters had been defeated. And that now we all measure the same.»
Félix de Azúa

«His passion for narrating leads him to the selection of reality, to omissions, to minimalist language, to that will to narrate the real that becomes his personal poetics and his lyricism.»
Ricardo Lladosa, Zenda Libros

«Adventures, travels, battles and great wars, loves and characters of all kinds, with their virtues and their miseries, journey ceaselessly and unhurriedly through the pages of his stories. [...] Few like Hemingway fulfill the proverb "the writer dies, but his work remains".»
Vanessa Jaklitsch, La Razón

«He looks at the world without prejudices or preconceptions and records with precision and economy, and with an almost terrifying immediacy, exactly what he sees.»
Javier García Recio, La Opinión

«Through each story parade keys to Hemingway's writing [...] and the mastery of one of the best narrators of the last century.»
El País

«Hemingway left an intense life of adventures, emotions and feelings that he managed to convey in his masterful stories. [...] Simple, raw, beautiful and perfect literature. He wrote as he lived and that allowed him to create his own unique, unmistakable and brilliant style. The Hemingway style.»
Javier García Recio, La Opinión de Málaga

«When one manages to dismantle a Faulkner, one has the impression that it has too many springs and screws and that it will be impossible to return it to its original state again. Hemingway, on the other hand, with less inspiration, with less passion and less madness, but with lucid rigor, left his screws visible on the outside, as in railway cars. Perhaps that is why Faulkner is a writer who had a lot to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who has had the most to do with my craft.»
Gabriel García Márquez

«The most celebrated American writer since Mark Twain: with him, Yankee literature entered a new dimension.»
Jaime G. Mora, ABC

«His palette was incredibly broad, and exquisite and violent and brutal and ugly, it was all those things. With all his flaws, with all the difficulties, his personal life or whatever, he seemed to understand the human being.»
Michael Katakis