How Did Ernest Hemingway Impact The World Of Writing
Ernest Hemmingway
Ernest Hemmingway had a major impact on the world of writing and a strong influence on 20th century literature during his lifetime. Hemmingway was an American novelist, journalist, and short story writer that produced most of his work between the 1920’s and 1950’s. Some of Hemmingway’s published literature includes seven novels, six short stories, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published after his death.
From the beginning of his writing career in the 1920s, Hemingway's writing style occasioned a great deal of comment and controversy. Basically, a typical Hemingway novel or short story is written in simple, direct, unadorned …show more content…
We finally learn that the girl's nickname is "Jig." Eventually we learn that they are in the cafe of a train station in Spain. But Hemingway tells us nothing about them — or about their past or about their future. There is no description of them. We don't know their ages. We know virtually nothing about them. The only information that we have about them is what we learn from their dialogue; thus this story must be read very carefully.
This spare, carefully honed and polished writing style of Hemingway was by no means spontaneous. When he worked as a journalist, he learned to report facts crisply and succinctly. He was also an obsessive revisionist. It is reported that he wrote and rewrote all, or portions, of The Old Man and the Sea more than two hundred times before he was ready to release it for publication.
Hemingway took great pains with his work; he revised tirelessly. "A writer's style," he said, "should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous." Hemingway more than fulfilled his own requirements for good writing. His words are simple and vigorous, burnished and uniquely …show more content…
Hemmingway supported the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, the subject for Whom The Bell Tolls (1940)-served as a war correspondent during World War II, and from 1950 until his death lived in Cuba. His novel The Old Man and The Sea (1952) won a Pultizer Prize, and Hemmingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Ernest Hemmingway became a reporter after graduating from high school. During World War I, he served as an ambulance-service volunteer in France and an infantryman in Italy, where he was wounded and decorated for valor. After the war, he lived for a time in Paris, part of “Lost Generation” of American expatriates that also included Gertrude Stein and F. Scott
Ernest Hemmingway had a major impact on the world of writing and a strong influence on 20th century literature during his lifetime. Hemmingway was an American novelist, journalist, and short story writer that produced most of his work between the 1920’s and 1950’s. Some of Hemmingway’s published literature includes seven novels, six short stories, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published after his death.
From the beginning of his writing career in the 1920s, Hemingway's writing style occasioned a great deal of comment and controversy. Basically, a typical Hemingway novel or short story is written in simple, direct, unadorned …show more content…
We finally learn that the girl's nickname is "Jig." Eventually we learn that they are in the cafe of a train station in Spain. But Hemingway tells us nothing about them — or about their past or about their future. There is no description of them. We don't know their ages. We know virtually nothing about them. The only information that we have about them is what we learn from their dialogue; thus this story must be read very carefully.
This spare, carefully honed and polished writing style of Hemingway was by no means spontaneous. When he worked as a journalist, he learned to report facts crisply and succinctly. He was also an obsessive revisionist. It is reported that he wrote and rewrote all, or portions, of The Old Man and the Sea more than two hundred times before he was ready to release it for publication.
Hemingway took great pains with his work; he revised tirelessly. "A writer's style," he said, "should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous." Hemingway more than fulfilled his own requirements for good writing. His words are simple and vigorous, burnished and uniquely …show more content…
Hemmingway supported the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, the subject for Whom The Bell Tolls (1940)-served as a war correspondent during World War II, and from 1950 until his death lived in Cuba. His novel The Old Man and The Sea (1952) won a Pultizer Prize, and Hemmingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Ernest Hemmingway became a reporter after graduating from high school. During World War I, he served as an ambulance-service volunteer in France and an infantryman in Italy, where he was wounded and decorated for valor. After the war, he lived for a time in Paris, part of “Lost Generation” of American expatriates that also included Gertrude Stein and F. Scott