从现在起,整整四十年前,那时海明威正以美国新一代“文豪”的姿态向诺贝尔文学奖进军之际,他在致一位第二次世界大战中的战友罗勃特·康威尔的书信中一再表示,他在战后美国文坛的形象,既非战场英雄,亦非渔猎能手,而是一位地地道道的作家;并且发誓说他平生的志愿,即在于成为美国最优秀的散文作家。几十年过去,他的这一雄心,可以说是大体达到了,可惜他暮年饮弹自戕,未能得尽天年,成为文坛上的一件憾事。约翰·厄普代克曾为海明威一生 From now on, exactly forty years ago, when Hemingway was marching toward the Nobel Prize for literature with a new generation of “literary genius” of the United States, he sent a speech to a comrade in charge of World War II, In his letter, Will repeatedly said that his image in the post-war American literary world was neither a hero of the battlefield nor a hunting and hunting expert, but an out-sourced writer; and vowed that his life-long volunteerism was to become the most American Excellent essayist. Decades of past, his ambition, can be said to be generally reached, but unfortunately he was drinking sluggish years, failed to get through the day, became a pity on the literary world. John Updike was a Hemingway life