Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 1) | Hemingway, Ernest 1899–1961
Hemingway, Ernest 1899–1961
Winner of both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes, Hemingway was an American novelist and short story writer noted for terse dialogue and understatement. His major works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.
Hemingway had the good fortune to discover early the discipline he required. He loved and admired Flaubert, and he wanted to achieve an accuracy of statement like Flaubert's—the difference between them being that whereas Flaubert had aimed especially at accuracy of statement regarding the exterior world, trying to nail an object with the one word that fitted it, for Hemingway the great necessity was to be accurate in the statement of emotions…. In the 1930's either he runs away from the discipline or it runs away with him; he preaches it, rather raucously, but has such great trouble with the practice that it is...
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