By Er Hemingway
About the author:
Ear Hemingway (1899—1961) was born in Oak Pak, Illinois. The son of a try doctor, he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school in 1917. Such experience might have had an effe the short simple ntences characteristic of his pro style. During World War I he rved as an honorable junior officer in the Ameri Red Cross Ambulance Corps and in 1918 was verely wounded in both legs. After the war, he went to Paris as a fer, employed by The Toronto Star. Influenced and guided by Sherwood Anderson, Stephen e arude Stein, he became a writer and began to attract attention. Later he actively participated in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. 1n 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1961, ih, ay and deep depression, Hemingway shot himlf with a hunting gun.
The Sun Also Ris (1926) is Hemingway’s first true novel. It casts light on a whole geion after the First World War. His big success is A Farewell to Arms (1929), which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole geion in the 1920s in telling us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded Ameri soldier with a British nur. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by him clearly reprents a new beginning in Hemingway’s career as a writer, and The Old Man and the Sea (1952) is a triumph, a tender fulfillment of the affirmative attitude that makes its first successful appearan For Whom the Bell Tolls. Capping his career and leading to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, this short novel is about an old fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.
Other works by Hemingway tribute to his success as a major literary figure iweh tury, too. Men without Women (1927) is a colle of short stories, the best of which are “The Ued,” “The Killers,” and “Fifty Grand,” known for Hemingway hero of athletic prowess and masity and unyielding heroism. Ih iernoon (1932) Hemingrents his philosophy about life ah through the depi of the bullfight as a kind of miic tragedy. The Green Hills of Africa (1935) is about how the writer survive against the threats to his talents of geraditions in America: success, money, and domestitas; The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936) tells a brilliant short story about a mortally wounded Ameri writer who attempts to redeem his imagination from the corrosions of wealth and domestic strife. To Have and Have not (1937) is one of many to show Hemingway’s characteristic pattern of a lonely individual struggling against nature and the enviro.
Hemingway develops in his works the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain. The ats and mannerisms of human speech are so well prehat the characters are full of flesh and blood and the u of short, simple and ventional words and ntences has an effect of clearness, terness and great care. This ruthless ey in his writing stands as a striking application of Mies van der Rohe’s architectural maxim: “Less is more.”
By Er Hemingway
About the author:
Ear Hemingway (1899—1961) was born in Oak Pak, Illinois. The son of a try doctor, he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school in 1917. Such experience might have had an effe the short simple ntences characteristic of his pro style. During World War I he rved as an honorable junior officer in the Ameri Red Cross Ambulance Corps and in 1918 was verely wounded in both legs. After the war, he went to Paris as a fer, employed by The Toronto Star. Influenced and guided by Sherwood Anderson, Stephen e arude Stein, he became a writer and began to attract attention. Later he actively participated in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. 1n 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1961, ih, ay and deep depression, Hemingway shot himlf with a hunting gun.