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Hemingway, Ernest - 1899–1961, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Oak Park, Ill. one of the great American writers of the 20th cent.

Life

Hemingway, Ernest - 1899–1961, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Oak Park, Ill. one of the great American writers of the 20th cent.

Life

The son of a country doctor, Hemingway worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school in 1917. During World War I he served as an ambulance driver in France and in the Italian infantry and was wounded just before his 19th birthday. Later, while working in Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, he became involved with the expatriate literary and artistic circle surrounding Gertrude Stein. During the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway served as a correspondent on the loyalist side. He fought in World War II and then settled in Cuba in 1945. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. After his expulsion from Cuba by the Castro regime, he moved to Idaho. He was increasingly plagued by ill health and mental problems, and in July, 1961, he committed suicide by shooting himself.

Work

Hemingway's fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives—soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters—who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic courage. His celebrated literary style, influenced by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, is direct, terse, and often monotonous, yet particularly suited to his elemental subject matter.

Hemingway's first books, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), In Our Time (short stories, 1924), and The Torrents of Spring (a novel, 1926), attracted attention primarily because of his literary style. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises (1926), he was recognized as the spokesman of the "lost generation" (so called by Gertrude Stein). The novel concerns a group of psychologically bruised, disillusioned expatriates living in postwar Paris, who take psychic refuge in such immediate physical activities as eating, drinking, traveling, brawling, and lovemaking.

His next important novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929), tells of a tragic wartime love affair between an ambulance driver and an English nurse. Hemingway also published such volumes of short stories as Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933), as well as The Fifth Column, a play. His First Forty-nine Stories (1938) includes such famous short stories as "The Killers," "The Undefeated," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Hemingway's nonfiction works, Death in the Afternoon (1932), about bullfighting, and Green Hills of Africa (1935), about big-game hunting, glorify virility, bravery, and the virtue of a primal challenge to life.

From his experience in the Spanish Civil War came Hemingway's great novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), which, in detailing an incident in the war, argues for human brotherhood. His novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952) celebrates the indomitable courage of an aged Cuban fisherman. Among Hemingway's other works are the novels To Have and Have Not (1937) and Across the River and into the Trees (1950); he also edited an anthology of stories, Men at War (1942). Posthumous publications include A Moveable Feast (1964), a memoir of Paris in the 1920s; the novels Islands in the Stream (1970) and True at First Light (1999), a safari saga begun in 1954 and edited by his son Patrick; and The Nick Adams Stories (1972), a collection that includes previously unpublished pieces.

Bibliography

See his letters, ed. by C. Baker (1989) and ed. by M. J. Bruccoli (1996); M. S. Reynolds, Hemingway: An Annotated Chronology (1991); biographies by C. Baker (1969, rev. ed. 1980), J. Meyers (1986), M. S. Reynolds (5 vol. 1987–99), K. Lynn (1988), and J. R. Mellow (1993); P. Young, Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration (2d ed. 1966); C. Baker, Hemingway, the Writer as Artist (4th ed. 1972), H. S. Villard and J. Nagel, Hemingway in Love and War (1989), J. McLendon, Papa (1990).

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Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls » Read Now
by Rena Sanderson, Robert H. Walker. 204 pgs.

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This collection of essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls provides a long overdue reassessment of this Spanish Civil War novel and demonstrates its centrality in the author's life and canon, reestablishing the book's status as an American masterpiece. Following Sanderson's introduction, the...
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This collection of essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls provides a long overdue reassessment of this Spanish Civil War novel and demonstrates its centrality in the author's life and canon, reestablishing the book's status as an American masterpiece. Following Sanderson's introduction, the book begins with a reconsideration of Hemingway's career by Kurt Vonnegut. Ten literary essays by both well-known scholars and new voices follow. Employing a diversity of critical methods, including the biographical, historical, political, textual, ethical, feminist, religious, mythic, generic, and post-structuralist, these essays reveal the literary and historical richness of Hemingway's novel.
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Hemingway: Up in Michigan Perspectives ("Love and Death in Hemingway's Spanish Novel" begins on p. 213, "Love in For Whom the Bell Tolls: Hemingway's Undiscovered Country" begins on p. 221 and "Something in It for You: Role Models in For Whom the Bell Tolls" begins on p. 229) » Read Now
by Frederic J. Svoboda. 298 pgs.

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...213 Love in For Whom the Bell Tolls: Hemingways Undiscovered...It for You: Role Models in For Whom the Bell Tolls Linda Patterson Miller...Reshaping Death in the For Whom...
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Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway (Chap. 8 "For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)") » Read Now
by Lisa Tyler. 188 pgs.

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The fully-lived, yet tragically ended life of Ernest Hemingway has attracted nearly as much attention as his extensive canon of writings. This critical study introduces students to both the man and his fiction, exploring how Hemingway confronted in his own life the same moral issues that would later...
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The fully-lived, yet tragically ended life of Ernest Hemingway has attracted nearly as much attention as his extensive canon of writings. This critical study introduces students to both the man and his fiction, exploring how Hemingway confronted in his own life the same moral issues that would later create thematic conflicts for the characters in his novels. In addition to the biographical chapter which focuses on the pivotal events in Hemingway's personal life, a literary heritage chapter overviews his professional developments, relating his distinctive style to his early years as a journalist. With clear concise analysis, students are guided through all of Hemingway's major works including The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Full chapters are also devoted to examining his collections of short fiction, the African Stories, and the posthumous works.
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Ernest Hemingway: The Critical Heritage ("For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)" begins on p. 314) » Read Now
by Jeffrey Meyers. 611 pgs.

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This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
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The Modern American Novel of Violence ("Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls" begins on p. 64) » Read Now
by Patrick W. Shaw. 220 pgs.

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"An addendum to W. M. Frohock's 'The Novel of Violence in America, 1920-1950' (1950), Shaw's volume further defines violence and provides lengthy essays on a novel by each of eight authors not covered by Frohock—Porter, Capote. Vonnegut, Doctorow, McCarthy, Morrison, Selby, and Ellis. . . ...
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"An addendum to W. M. Frohock's 'The Novel of Violence in America, 1920-1950' (1950), Shaw's volume further defines violence and provides lengthy essays on a novel by each of eight authors not covered by Frohock—Porter, Capote. Vonnegut, Doctorow, McCarthy, Morrison, Selby, and Ellis. . . . Students and scholars dealing with any of the writers Shaw covers will appreciate his detailed essays on specific novels. Recommended for libraries supporting coursework in the modern novel at the upper-division undergraduate level and above."—Choice
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Heroic Fiction: The Epic Tradition and American Novels of the Twentieth Century (Chap. 4 "For Whom the Bell Tolls") » Read Now
by Leonard Lutwack, Harry T. Moore. 176 pgs.

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...Wrath 47 4 For Whom the Bell Tolls 64 5 Bellows...items focused on Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls and Steinbeck The Grapes...notes, in his discussion of For Whom the...
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Revolution in Ronda: The Facts in Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," in The Hemingway Review » Read Now
by Ramon Buckley. 8 pgs.

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...the facts in Hemingways "For Whom the Bell Tolls." by Ramon Buckley...military coup. Chapter 10 of For Whom the Bell Tolls is Pilars painfully graphic...location of the...
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Ernest Hemingway: The Man and His Work ("English and Spanish in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'" begins on p. 205) » Read Now
by John K. M. McCaffery. 354 pgs.

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...FENIMORE English and Spanish in for Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 205...conceivably have predicted For Whom the Bell Tolls . Yet, in retrospect, For Whom the Bell Tolls seems a...
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Parody or Parity: A Brief Note on Gertrude Stein and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' in The Hemingway Review » Read Now
by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan. 7 pgs.

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...note on Gertrude Stein and For Whom the Bell Tolls. by Jacqueline Vaught...Jordans comment to Agustin in For Whom the Bell Tolls that "A rose is a rose is...and theme in...
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Hemingway Raids the Library for For Whom the Bell Tolls, in The Hemingway Review » Read Now
by Peter Hays. 5 pgs.

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...HEMINGWAY RAIDS THE LIBRARY FOR FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. by PETER HAYS...suggest literary sources for For Whom the Bell Tolls including H.R. Knickerbockers...far criticism...
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A Reader's Guide to Pilar's Bullfighters: Untold Histories in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' in The Hemingway Review » Read Now
by Miriam Mandel. 11 pgs.

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...bullfighters: untold histories in For Whom the Bell Tolls. by Miriam Mandel In For Whom the Bell Tolls, his most extended fictional...bullfighting preceding the action of...
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Rabbit Stew and Blowing Dorothy's Bridges: Love, Aggression, and Fetishism in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Carl Eby. 15 pgs.

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...aggression, and fetishism in For Whom the Bell Tolls. by Carl Eby...fingers. - Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (67) There is something...big iron cooking platter...
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Ernest Hemingway: Seven Decades of Criticism ("Toward a Politically Responsible Ethical Criticism: Narrative in the Political Unconscious and For Whom the Bell Tolls" begins on p. 185) » Read Now
by Linda Wagner-Martin. 430 pgs.

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Once again Linda Wagner-Martin has selected an important collection of essays that cover some of the more interesting dimensions of Ernest Hemingway's fiction. Although the book opens with pieces from the 1920s by D.H. Lawrence and Gertrude Stein, it emphasizes criticism written during the past...
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Once again Linda Wagner-Martin has selected an important collection of essays that cover some of the more interesting dimensions of Ernest Hemingway's fiction. Although the book opens with pieces from the 1920s by D.H. Lawrence and Gertrude Stein, it emphasizes criticism written during the past decade. In the 1980s and 1990s, Hemingway's fiction has sparked a renaissance of attention and critics have moved with alacrity beyond their earlier appreciation of Hemingway's style, economy, and grace.
A retrospective look at criticism that appeared soon after the author's suicide shows a collection of writing that -- from the perspective of the 1990s -- seems hesitant. If Hemingway himself seemed to fault his life's work, perhaps the previously acknowledged brilliance of his writing might be called into question. Essays of the 1960s and 1970s dealt with small issues, close readings, and limited concerns. But, as the nature of the critical enterprise changed, so too did the kind of criticism devoted toHemingway's words. Much of this collection presents the Hemingway oeuvre as culturally provocative, especially on the questions of gender, sexuality, and race; and, for the first time in the "decades" series, a great many of the essays have been written by women scholars.
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The Social Novel at the End of an Era (Discussion of For Whom the Bell Tolls begins on p. 87) » Read Now
by Warren French. 214 pgs.

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...his study: The Hamlet, For Whom the Bell Tolls , and The Grapes of Wrath...underlies it. In the case of For Whom the Bell Tolls , he shifts his focus from...The Grapes of...