When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not
characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
The
public's acquaintance with the personal life of Ernest Hemingway was perhaps greater
than with any other modern novelist. He was well known as a sportsman and "bon vivant" ... He became a legendary figure, wrote John W. Aldridge, "a kind of twentieth-century Lord Byron; and like Byron, he
had learned to play himself, his own best hero, with superb conviction. He was
Hemingway of the rugged outdoor grin and the hairy chest posing beside a marlin
he had just landed or a lion he had just shot; he was Tarzan Hemingway,
crouching in the African bush with elephant gun at ready, Bwana Hemingway commanding
his native bearers in terse Swahili; he was War Correspondent Hemingway writing
a play in the Hotel Florida in Madrid while thirty Fascist shells crashed
through the roof; later on he was Task Force Hemingway swathed in ammunition
belts and defending his post single-handed against fierce German attacks."
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Ernest
Hemingway was one of the most famous members of the "Lost
Generation", the post-World War I
generation of American writers who expatriated to Paris and established their
literary reputations in the 1920s. The phrase refers to a disillusioned
generation characterized by lost values, lost belief in the idea of human
progress, and a mood of futility and despair leading to hedonism.
Now let's watch the movie based on Hemingway’s novel "A Farewell to Arms" - set against the backdrop of the Italian front during
World War I, it is the story of an American
Army volunteer who meets a British nurse on the eve of the big offensive in the
Alps and they fall passionately in love. Torn apart, then reunited, they escape
to Switzerland to await the birth of their child …
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