The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in
1899, as the second of six children. During his early life he served as a news correspondent
during the Greco-Turkish war, and worked as an ambulance driver on the Italian
front for a year, during World War I. In 1924, Hemingway decided to devote
himself to fiction, and he settled with his wife in Paris. After publishing the
novel “The Torrents of the Spring”, his name as an author was established, and
he gained a wide reputation after his next three books, “Fiesta”, “Men Without
Women” and “A Farewell to Arms”. The author received the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1954, after the publishing of “The Old Man and the Sea”.
Ernest Hemingway is known for his writing
style, which is closely linked to the “Iceberg theory”. When writing, Hemingway
does not give you all of the information by telling you precisely what he
means. He hides a lot in between the lines, under the surface, just like an
iceberg. It is also said that the famous author’s writing style was inspired by
– or a reaction to – all the wars he had witnessed. The book “A Farewell to
Arms” is an example of this.
During his latter years, Hemingway suffered
from depression, and he ended up committing suicide, in 1961.[1]
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