her advice and spoke fervently of-writing the truest sentence that you know . His journalism and the influence of Gertrude Stein helped to form his literary style - lucid, pure, and simple. From Gertrude Stein he also developed his sense of the lost generation , men and women struggling bravely to find value in a world deprived of faith. His first book, Three Stories & Ten Poems, appeared in 1923 and was followed closely by In Our Time. His experience of coming to terms with the war is reflected in his story The End of Something. Nick Adams, who sits alone in the woods, is escaping the world of men, trying to restore himself from both a physical and a psychological shattering. He is trying to hold on to his sanity.books, along with The Torrents of Spring (1926), a parody of his friend Sherwood Anderson s work, drew scant notice. Then, late in 1926, he published a novel about the pain and disillusionment which the heroes associate with life in the modern world. This was The Sun Also Rises. The novel brought Hemingway widespread critical attention and international acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Gertrude Stein s remark, You are all a lost generation , was the novel's epigraph, and the book did reveal the postwar epoch to itself. Many American readers of Hemingway s age embraced it as a portrait of their shattered lives.the next few years, he went on to write an even more powerful and successful novel, A Farewell To Arms (1929). This is the beautifully told, moving story of Frederick Henry, a wounded ambulance driver. While recuperating in an Italian hospital, Henry falls in love with an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Returned to the front, Henry is disillusioned with the war, makes his famous separate peace , and deserts. He flees to Switzerland with Catherine, who is now pregnant with his child. Frederick s farewell to Catherine just before her death is one of the most famous passages in American fiction, juxtaposing the writer s cynicism about the human experience with the characters romantic love.pursuing adventure, Hemingway traveled the world, hunting in Africa, deep-sea fishing in the Caribbean, and skiing in Idaho and Europe.the early 1930 s he brought out two books of nonfiction. Death in the Afternoon (1932) revealed his fascination with bullfighting; Green Hills of Africa (1935) did the same for big game hunting. Significantly, both books centered on the art of killing. His next novel, To Have and Have Not (1937), was dismissed by critics as unskillful. It was followed by the play, The Fifth Column. In 1940, just as the literary world was writing Hemingway off as a has-been, he published another masterpiece, the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.outbreak of World War II drew Hemingway back into uniform, officially a correspondent. During one battle, a First Army commander reported that Hemingway s band of adventurers was sixty miles in front of the Americans advancing line. When the Allies at last reached Paris in 1944, they found that Hemingway had preceded them and had already liberated the bar at the Ritz Hotel.1952, Hemingway s celebrated literary accomplishments and his continuous pursuit of excitement and dangers, producing yet another widely acclaimed novel in that year, The Old Man and the Sea which won the Pulitzer Prize and helped earn him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. It tells of Santiago, a Cuban fisherman, old and down on his luck, who ventures far out in the Gulf Stream and hooks a giant marlin. Santiago battles the fish for two days and nights, and he is towed ever farther out to sea. Although he finally succeeds in subduing the great fish and lashing it to the side of his boat, the sharks tear at the carcass until he is left with only its skeleton. The tale has been interpreted as Hemingway s metaphor for life: a vision of the hero, weighed down by the years, but still able to use his skill to taunt fate and so win a kind of victory from it.1954, when Hemingway won the Nobel Prize, he now divided his time between the house he had built in Ketcham, Idaho, and his restless travels all over the world: to Cuba, Venice, Spain, and Africa. health deteriorated, and periods of elation alternated with episodes of severe depression. After a visit to the Mayo Clinic for treatment, he returned to Idaho. ...
