Ernest Hemingway Recording

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[MargaritasAntesPorco]

i think this is Hemingway because of the way he pronounces sinclaire lewis' name...with a "w" sound...almost "wewis"...it is known that Hem had this particular speech impediment. So its either Hem doing, i believe, a drunken self-parody; or a very good imitator.

[Alec6655]

@MargaritasAntesPorco It's him. He was experimenting to "hear" what he sounded like on a personal recording device. He was debating about whether to accept an offer to narrate a TV series. He later declined. There are only a handful of known EH recordings all from this time.

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[Lehmann108]

@Xiaolian7 Sorry to hear that, but what the fuck does your post have to do with Hemingway?

[ultramega67]

William Barnett wrote that Hemingway was a very sick man at the end of his life but that,"A man who has expended himself so fiercely on life has almost earned the right to be sick in old age".

[Fjordgnu]

Unless I'm mistaken, this was written by Hemingway, but read by someone else.

[lonelygnome1]

Hemingway nerds unite! 

[nonsentirti]

his way of talking reminds me of Bukowski.

[kovryzhenko]

@nonsentirti all men with balls talk this way

[sk5845]

@spacecowboynj

Are those letters available to researchers (say, as copies in a special collections library) or published anywhere? Because I'd love to be able to what he said first-hand.

[seanovette]

Very, very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[NoahKai]

You can hear how broken he is in his voice...it's sad. He has seen so many things that just broke his spirit.

[Jassurin85]

This is not Hemingway. This is bullshit!!

[ForSunny2]

awesome..

[spacecowboynj]

Anyone who knows his work and life even somewhat well know he had massive mental breakdowns, underwent electroshock therapy (which I believe he said killed his ability to write). He was absolutely losing it toward the end. He had physical injuries, drank extremely heavily, and has I think 3 or 4 suicides in his family. I have a collection of his letters and there's a haunting one to his mother saying he'll never commit suicide as his father did. It has a rebellious tone.

[Mytholgylove]

@spacecowboynj

He reminds me very much of another writer who wrote between-the '60s and the '90s, his name was Charles Bukowski, he writes in an auto-biographic manner, and he tells the stories through his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, most of his books, and some of his poems are of him living off of cheep liquor, cheep hotels and cheep women. If you can stomach the gratuity of it, he's interesting to read, check 'em out.

[tmanx1]

@spacecowboynj Hemingway also suffered from hereditary hemochromatosis, the "Celtic Curse" which was no doubt destroying his organs, joints, and mental health at that point and probably also had a part in the suicides of family members.

[John1576able]

EH is loved and respected by hundreds of thousands of people to this day. We are just learning now however that his mental health towards the end of his life was very troubled. Declassified F.B.I. surveillance documents report him as 'breaking down physically and mentally'. So please do not dismiss the man as a 'rambling drunk', he may have been on medication. I know EHs memory is sacred to many folks who downplay his mental problems, but there is no escaping they were bad.

[margotdarby]

It's Hem. I've heard him on other recordings. If it's not, it's a damn good imitator with all those little tongue peculiarities [Trieste-t] and slight s lisp [Princesss of Greessse].

[wberdan]

Hemingway would have been awesome doing his own audio books. 

[DangerBird]

as described on the HarperAudio website, it is an intoxicated and rambling EH

[MJMEMH]

Guys, sorry to disappoint you conspiracy theorists, but this is Hemingway. Go and listen to his Nobel Prize speech. This is him. That's not just an opinion, this audio recording is on a lot of respected journalism sites, like Salon.com. If you've ever heard him speak, you'll know it really is. You'd recognize it anywhere.

[MeLoveGaming]

@MJMEMH noop

[captam666]

@MJMEMH he didn't give a speech for the noble prize. he didn't attend the ceremony. the united states ambassador read it for him. look it up.

[koooraman]

@MJMEMH Hemingway didn't have a speech for the Nobel Prize, he sent a letter. He was recovering from an injury as I read.

[cinematagraph]

This is Hemingway's voice. If you've heard other recording of his voice and recognize his distinct, Chicago, northern Illinois accent, then you know too that this is Hemingway.

[terrybroadway]

Wow.. a lot of Hemingway "experts" sounding off on here... Read the comment from the person who posted the video. They know it's not Hemingway speaking.. It's a Hemingway speech being read by John C. Cabot.

[henriruel]

This is not Hemingway speaking. It is a pathetic imitation. Whoever it is he is overworking some syllables and the sound of the "R" is all wrong.

[drgonzo2802]

Not Hemingway.

[Skullz1595]

@drgonzo2802 I believe that is E.Hemingway,he was my distant cousin.

[mhender668]

Interesting recording, but highly inaccurate description of the story.

[xander7ful]

"She is indomitable. Nothing has been seen like her since Attila the Hun." He made a funny!

[videolung]

This is obviously a joke on Hemingway's part. I think it's hilarious. "A princess of Greece called Aphasia"

[focus2aus]

In all the recordings I've heard of him he talks in this same slow, deliberate way, I think because when he knew he was being recorded he wanted to choose his words very carefully, as if writing out loud.

[rlathbury]

This is Hemingway's own parody of _Across the River and Into the Trees,_ Hemingway's angry response to reviewers who criticized this (in my judgment) very poor novel. Hemingway is not drunk, only trying to show that he write a funnier take-off of his book than (say) E. B. White ("Across the Street and Into the Grill."

[slccritchle1]

This does sound like a poor recording of Hemingway's voice. But is said suggests that it is someone doing an impression of him or that he is very drunk at the time. The book he is talking about is Across the River and Into the Trees. The colonel wasn't 18. For a good recording of Hemingway's voice, search for The Spanish Earth.

[akindofwind]

Hemingway was unable to make the ceremony due to illness, and an ambassador read his speech for him. He recorded it later--I think this is it.

[stevevandien]

Doesn't sound like Hemingway during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. If this is truly Hemingway, please give us the time and place of recording. Indeed, give us anything and everything to convince us that this is Hemingway's voice.

[edbremson]

@stevevandien

if anyone has seen the short film, The Spanish Earth, which Hemingway narrated in part, this is the way he talks.

[stevevandien]

@edbremson Yep, I've heard part of Hemingway's "Spanish Earth" narration as well as the recording he made of his Nobel Prize acceptance message. But I dunno, he just sounds somehow different here. Maybe he IS doing a parody of himself, which would explain the difference:) --

[Skullz1595]

@stevevandien I believe that was E.Hemingway,he was my distant cousin.

[scottohscott]

I wonder if their recording equipment (the transistor) was a little bad on picking up bass. I always imagined hemingway would've had a very deep and powerful voice. Am I wrong?

[NickInBerlin]

impressive and somewhat dissapointing at the same time. sounds like a caricature of him. which book is he talking about? I even doubt it's the real him.