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1、Ernest Hemingway,Ernest Miller Hemingway(1899 1961),American novelist and short-story writer,awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a pow
2、erful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century.,Hemingways Writing Years,The writing of books occupied Hemingway for most of the postwar years.He remained based in Paris,but he traveled widely for the skiing,bullfighting,fishing,and hunting that by then had become part of his li
3、fe and formed the background for much of his writing.His position as a master of short fiction had been advanced by Men Without Women in 1927 and thoroughly established with the stories in Winner Take Nothing in 1933.Among his finest stories are“The Killers,”“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
4、,”and“The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”At least in the public view,however,the novel A Farewell to Arms(1929)overshadowed such works.,“The Hemingway Code”,Hemingways characters plainly embody his own values and view of life.The main characters of The Sun Also Rises,A Farewell to Arms,and For Whom the Bell
5、Tolls are young men whose strength and self-confidence nevertheless coexist with a sensitivity that leaves them deeply scarred by their wartime experiences.War was for Hemingway a potent symbol of the world,which he viewed as complex,filled with moral ambiguities,and offering almost unavoidable pain
6、,hurt,and destruction.To survive in such a world,and perhaps emerge victorious,one must conduct oneself with honour,courage,endurance,and dignity,a set of principles known as“the Hemingway code.”To behave well in the lonely,losing battle with life is to show“grace under pressure”and constitutes in i
7、tself a kind of victory,a theme clearly established in The Old Man and the Sea.,Writing Style,In striving to be as objective and honest as possible,Hemingway hit upon the device of describing a series of actions by using short,simple sentences from which all comment or emotional rhetoric has been el
8、iminated.These sentences are composed largely of nouns and verbs,have few adjectives and adverbs,and rely on repetition and rhythm for much of their effect.The resulting terse,concentrated prose is concrete and unemotional yet is often resonant and capable of conveying great irony through understate
9、ment.Hemingways use of dialogue was similarly fresh,simple,and natural-sounding.The influence of this style was felt worldwide wherever novels were written,particularly from the 1930s through the 50s.,Modern reception,A consummately contradictory man,Hemingway achieved a fame surpassed by few,if any
10、,American authors of the 20th century.The virile nature of his writing,which attempted to re-create the exact physical sensations he experienced in wartime,big-game hunting,and bullfighting,in fact masked an aesthetic sensibility of great delicacy.He was a celebrity long before he reached middle age
11、,but his popularity continues to be validated by serious critical opinion.,Ernest Hemingway bibliography,Novels(1926)The Torrents of Spring(1926)The Sun Also Rises(1929)A Farewell to Arms(1937)To Have and Have Not(1940)For Whom the Bell Tolls(1950)Across the River and into the Trees(1952)The Old Man
12、 and the Sea(1970)Islands in the Stream(1986)The Garden of Eden,Nonfiction(1932)Death in the Afternoon(1935)Green Hills of Africa(1962)Hemingway,The Wild Years(1964)A Moveable Feast(1967)By-Line:Ernest Hemingway(1970)Ernest Hemingway:Cub Reporter(1985)The Dangerous Summer(1985)Dateline:Toronto(2019)
13、True at First Light(2019)Under Kilimanjaro,The Snows of Kilimanjaro,This short story-written in 1938-reflects several of Hemingways personal concerns during the 1930s regarding his existence as a writer and his life in general.Hemingway remarked in Green Hills that politics,women,drink,money and amb
14、ition damage American writers.His fear that his own acquaintances with rich people might harm his integrity as a writer becomes evident in this story.The text in italics also reveals Hemingways fear of leaving his own work of life unfinished.,In broader terms,The Snows of Kilimanjaro should be viewe
15、d as an example of an author of the Lost Generation,who experienced the world wars and the war in Spain,which led them to question moral and philosophy.Hemingway,in particular,found himself in a moral vacuum when he felt alienated from the church,which was closely affiliated with Franco in Spain,and
16、 which he felt obliged to distance himself from.As a result,he came up with his own code of human conduct:a mixture of hedonism and sentimental humanism.,Analysis of“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”,SummaryThemeCharactersSymbolsStyleModernism,Summary,As the story opens,the speaker,later identified as Harry
17、,is proclaiming that something is painless.It soon reveals that Harry and his wife,Helen,are encamped somewhere near Mount Kilimanjaro,which,at nearly twenty thousand feet,is Africas highest mountain.An epigraph at the beginning of the story,before the action is under way,describes the snow-capped m
18、ountain,mentioning that the name for its western summit is translated from the local Masai language as the House of God.,Summary,Extensive dialogue at the beginning of the story reveals that the speakers,husband and wife,have a combative relationship.Harry has ceased to be in love with Helen,althoug
19、h she adores him.In Harrys dialogue,one quickly detects a deep-seated underlying anger and a contempt for not just Helen but all women.Indeed,Harry feels and expresses guilt about the deterioration of his relationship with his wife,who has quite willingly put her considerable fortune at Harrys dispo
20、sal.The rub is that the comfortable life that Helen has provided seems to have robbed Harry of the motivation he needs to write.Harry and Helen have left their superficial rich friends behind in Paris,where they are pursuing their inconsequential lives.Harry toys with idea of writing about the idle
21、rich,viewing himself as a sort of spy in their territory.,Summary,It is soon revealed that Harry is on his deathbed,suffering from gangrene that is moving rapidly from his lower legs to other parts of his body.He and Helen,along with their African servant,Molo,are stranded in this remote part of Tan
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