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A Clean Well-lighted Place

A Clean Well-lighted Place

ClassicsLiterary Fiction
Pages
30
Published
1990
Language
English

Synopsis

In a quiet Spanish cafe late at night, an old deaf man sits alone, drinking. Two waiters discuss his life, his loneliness, and a recent suicide attempt. As the night deepens, their conversation turns to the nature of despair and the search for meaning in a world that offers little comfort.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MelancholicDarkThought-Provoking

Genres

Classics Literary Fiction

About the author

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist whose spare, understated prose reshaped twentieth-century fiction. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he worked briefly as a reporter before serving as an American Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian front in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded by mortar fire in July 1918 and decorated for helping other wounded men to safety. He settled in Paris in the early 1920s as a...

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