He is a writer and without a penny, she has a dog and a beautiful fortune. They hunt in Africa, drink whiskey, beat each other with cruel verbs. Love and dislove, slow litany... Nights are warm, sensual, or crowded with screams, perhaps nightmares. Man gets hurt, gangrene settles. He is thinking of the escaped writing, of the missing women, of death, and when he turns into the other world, the sky opens up and sees the light, the bright one, of the snows of Kilimanjaro... The four short stories of this pocket book (including the one entitled The Old Man Near the Bridge) are not "classic", but simply "mythical". Fever and sensuality, fear and disarray, all Hemingway's talent is there. Happiness in addition: the American version, which can be read in parallel with the French translation...