Difference between revisions of "Ernest Hemingway"
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| − | Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was a famous author whose works included: | + | Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was a famous author whose works included: |
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| + | *''The Old Man and the Sea'' | ||
| + | *''A Farewell to Arms" | ||
| + | *''The Sun Also Rises'' | ||
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| + | He won a Nobel Prize for literature. In 1961 he committed suicide. | ||
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| + | His prose was clean and tight. His sentences were short. Other writers admired his prose. They said "it is whole and true; it is good." Also, it was the prose of a man. He wrote about manly things. He wrote about bullfighting and fishing, and guns and war, and drinking and women. Writers in the decades before Hemingway had taken a civilized but effete delight in sophisticated prose, prose that scintillated with erudition, sparkled with the joy of a conscious pleasure in style, and piled phrase upon phrase, clause upon clause, sentence upon sentence in a corruscating effulgence of verbal pyrotechnics. Hemingway changed all that. | ||
Revision as of 01:34, January 3, 2007
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was a famous author whose works included:
- The Old Man and the Sea
- A Farewell to Arms"
- The Sun Also Rises
He won a Nobel Prize for literature. In 1961 he committed suicide.
His prose was clean and tight. His sentences were short. Other writers admired his prose. They said "it is whole and true; it is good." Also, it was the prose of a man. He wrote about manly things. He wrote about bullfighting and fishing, and guns and war, and drinking and women. Writers in the decades before Hemingway had taken a civilized but effete delight in sophisticated prose, prose that scintillated with erudition, sparkled with the joy of a conscious pleasure in style, and piled phrase upon phrase, clause upon clause, sentence upon sentence in a corruscating effulgence of verbal pyrotechnics. Hemingway changed all that.