Ernest Miller Hemingway. 1899-1961

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Ernest Miller Hemingway.1899-1961
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Childhood

• Grew up in Oak Park Illinois
• Father a doctor, mother an opera-singer
• Life at home strained, mother frustrated and
  domineering.

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World War I

• Volunteered for the American army in 1917, but
  was turned down.
• Volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver on
  the Italian front.
• Wounded

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Paris in the 20ies.

• The Lost Generation an expatriate group of
  writers who lived in Paris
• Gertrude Stein
• Ezra Pound
• Sherwood Anderson
• Scott Fitzgerald
• James Joyce

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Minimalism/icebergtechnique.

• Definition
• Conveying as much meaning as possible with as few
  words as possible.
• Short sentences(Paratactical)
• Open places
• Repetitions
• Symbols

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Most important works.

• 1925 In Our Time (Nick Adams, short stories)
• 1929 A Farewell to Arms (novel)
• 1933 The Snows of Kilimanjaro (novella)
• 1933 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
  (novella)
• 1940 For Whom The Bell Tolls (novel)
• 1952 The Old Man and The Sea (novel)

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Nick Adams stories (1925)

• Indian Camp and The Doctor and the Doctors Wife
• Autobiographical
• Themes Life, death, the relationship between man
  and woman.

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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
Robert Wilson Francis Macomber Margaret Macomber
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The different roles of Hemingway

• Big game hunter
• Womanizer
• Alcoholic

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• Bull Fighting

• Deep sea fishing

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Nobelpris 1954

• Acceptance speech http//www.americanrhetoric.com
  /speeches/ernesthemingwayreadingofnobelprizespeech
  .htm
• The Old Man and the Sea

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Death in 1961

• Hemingways house in Ketchum, Idaho

• Committed suicide after a series of depressions
  which were treated with
• electro shock.