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Hemmingway and Gellhorn is a pretty good watch with an emphasis on the Spanish Civil War.
by ghaff 2y ago
Hemmingway and Gellhorn is a pretty good watch with an emphasis on the Spanish Civil War.
- inglor_cz 2y agoThey were certainly two very talented people. They were also unable to keep their marriage working, even though divorce was somewhat scandalous at that time. Two strong personalities may find it hard to create a strong pair.
- beezlebroxxxxxx 2y agoCaroline Moorehead has a pretty well written biography on her called: "Martha Gellhorn: A Life". It's a pretty even-keeled look at Gellhorn and Hemingway, peeling back the layers of personality and some of the mythos to reveal how they were not always nice people to be around (although, Hemingway does come across as particularly boorish). Gellhorn was incredibly precocious and driven and often hard-headed. The sheer distance she traveled in her life and the things she got up to were almost impossible for your average woman in America to fathom at that time. She probably needed to adopt a near insane sense of self-confidence to go through with some of the things. She had incredible expectations for herself and, unfortunately, the later years of her life never seemed to match what she wanted out of her life and come across as quite depressing. Then again, few birth-to-death biographies have entertaining later years.
- Aeolun 2y agoFew lives have entertaining last years. It stands to reason the same is true for biographies based on those lives.
- bell-cot 2y agoTrue, though that's a mostly-modern phenomenon. Back when life expectancy was far shorter, and sudden-ish death due to injury or disease was far more common...