Winner Take Nothing

"Winner Take Nothing" is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway written in 1933. These are not stories of great victories; they are stories of everyday defeats. Briefly, sharply and accurately, Hemingway describes the world around him, noticing minor details and conveying barely perceptible shades of the feelings and experiences of his characters. Whether it's a conversation between a father and a son or a chat in a restaurant at the train station, conversations between waiters near a shinkvas or patients in a hospital ward - all these dialogues at first seem simple and everyday. Still, thanks to them, the line between literature and life, between characters and real people, is blurred.