Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
Presented by
戢婧 徐芙蓉
1 Life
3. Introduction of
The Old Man and the Sea
5 The Hemingway Hero
2 Major Works
6 Writing Style
7 Comment
4 The Lost Generation
1 . life
•born in Oak Park,Illinois / love boxing andfootball / influenced by his father
Happy Boyhood
•Rejected, a reporter for the KansasCity Star after graduating from highschool at 17 in 1917
•WW I , ambulance driver inFrance ,correspondent for theToronto
•Spanish Civil War, correspondenton the loyalist side.
•WWII
War Experience
• 1953 ,the Pulitzer Prize /1954,the Nobel Prize in Literature /for his novel The Old Man and theSea
For a true writer, each book shouldbe a new beginning where he triesagain for something that is beyondattainment. He should always try forsomething that has never been doneor that others have tried and failed.对真正的作家来说,每本书都应该是全新的开始,他再度尝试未可及的新的东西.
Awarding
•July,1961,hecommitted suisideby shootinghimself.
Death
Epitaph(墓志铭 ) for his tombstone:
"Pardon me for not getting up.".
2. Major works
•The Torrents of Spring «春潮»
•Three Stories and Ten Poems «三个短篇故事和十首诗»
•In Our Times «我们的时代»
•Men Without Women «没有女人的男人»
•Winner Take Nothing «胜者无所得»
•Indian Camp 《印第安人营地》
•The Sun Also Rise «太阳照样升起»
•A Farewell to Arms «永别了，武器»
•Death in the Afternoon «午后之死»
•Green Hills of Africa «非洲的青山»
•To Have and Have not «有钱人和没钱人»
•The Fifth Column «第五纵队»
•For Whom the Bell Tolls «丧钟为谁而鸣»
•Across the River and into the Trees «过河入林»
•The Old Man and the Sea «老人与海»
3. Introduction of
The Old Manand the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel about an old Cubanfisherman Santiago and his battle with a great marlin.In Santiago wesee the spirit of Hemingway type of individualism,contending with aforce he knows it is futile to battle with.He keeps on fighting becausehe believes that “a man is not made for defeat .A man can bedestroyed but not defeated.”
However ,the old man eventually comes to the realization that ingoing far out alone,”beyond all the people in the world.”He has methis doom,and he feels good to be one of the human and the naturalworld.
That he begins to experience a feeling of brotherhood and love notfor his fellowmen but for his fellow creature in nature is a convincingproof that Hemingway’s vision of the world has undergone a profoundchange.
4 .The
Lost Generation
This term came from Gertrude stein who said in Hemingway’spresence that “you are all a lost generation”.
The lost generation included the young English and Americanexpatriates as well as men and women caught in the war and cutfrom the old value and yet unable to come to terms with the newera when civilization had gone mad .
These writers adopted unconventional style of writing andreacted against the tendencies of the older writers in the 1920s.
5. The
Hemingway Hero
调研方法
”grace under pressure”
a world essentially chaotic and meaningless, manfights a solitary struggle against a force he does noteven understand, end in defeat, engender a senseof despair
despairing courage, to behave like a man,to asserthis dignity in face of adversity
typical Hemingway herores:
Nick Adams ,Jake Barnes,Frederic Henry,andSantiago
6. Writing style
“Papa Hemingway”
colloquial style
simple ,apparently natural, direct,clear ,fresh,and highly suggestive and connotative.
sentence short ,uncomplicated ,but active;words simple ,but filled with emotion; fewmodifiers, and great control of pause withaction of the story continuing during thesilences.
7. Comment
1 . Hemingway wrote best earlier in his career , and his chiefcontributions are in the sense of the short stories .
2 . Influenced by Mark Twain , Hemingway brought thecolloquial style to near-perfection.
3. Emphasize emotion： want to recreate for the reader theemotion of being there.
limited his vocabulary to gain some control over hisemotion.
4. Iceberg theory of writing , His sentences only give smallbit of the meaning, the rest is implied. One must go verydeep beneath the suface to understand the full meaningof his writing.
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