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Novelist · Writer · Journalist
American novelist and journalist. His concise writing style depicts war, loss, and courage, and had a great influence on 20th century literature. He is a person who thinks about culture after World War II.
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Residence
Cuba
Residence
The Sun Also Rises
1926
Book
The Old Man and the Sea
1952
Book
Spanish Civil War
1936–1939
War · Witness
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Born in the American Midwest, he became a newspaper reporter at a young age. He served as an ambulance driver during World War I, and his war experiences later became important material for his literature.
He expressed the feeling of a lost generation with works such as ``The Sun Also Rises,'' ``A Farewell to Arms,'' and ``The Old Man and the Sea.'' He also covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II, combining literature and reporting.
Hemingway is often talked about with images of hunting, fishing, battlefields, and bars, but his works quietly depict the anxieties and wounds that lie behind his strength. The more concise the writing style, the more tension there is in not saying much.
Hemingway is a figure who shows how the war experience of the 20th century changed literary themes and methods of expression. Studying him allows us to understand the influence that world wars, exile culture, journalism, and popular authorship had on modern literature.
