American Modernism of the 20th Century: Ernest Hemingway
OUTLINE
Modernism: main features and authors
Ernest Hemingway: biography
Remarkable works
Conclusion
Remarkable Works
A FAREWELL TO ARMAMS, 1929
THE TORRENTS OF SPRING, 1926
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, 1940
- Hemingway became the first literary star in the U.S.
- Strong influence on American literature.
- His novels and short stories have become universal.
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT,
1937
ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES, 1950
Across the river and into the trees
Hemingway's presentation
Hemingway's presentation of
"Across the river and into the trees" (1950)
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, 1952
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM, 1986
Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba, the Finca Vigía, ca 1947.
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In Our Time (1924)
Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
- The Fifth Column, and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938):
- “The Capital of the World”
- “Old Man at the Bridge”
- “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
- “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Hemingway's interview after wining the Nobel Prize
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
- Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899
- Raised in a literary, artistic, and wealthy family
- “Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.”
- Started career as a journalist at age 17
- Mother is a singer; father is a hunter
Spanish matador Antonio Ordoñez
chatting with Hemingway
Hemingway aged 19
Ernest Hemingway, American Red Cross volunteer, recuperates
from wounds at ARC Hospital, Milan, Italy, September 1918.
- A great sportsman: war conflicts, safaris and bullfighting
- 1918: participation in WW1 as an ambulance driver in Italy
- Seriously wounded by mortar fire
- Awarded with the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery
December 1937, correspondent Hemingway was observing the Loyalists' drive to take the nearby town of Teruel.
- 1920s: expatriate Americans in Paris
- 1937: reporter in the Spanish Civil War
- 1944: reporter in the WW2
- Awarded with a Bronze Star for his service as submarine hunter in 1947
Hemingway's fishing boat,
the Pilar
Ladies' Man
Wives:
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
(1921–1927)
Pauline Pfeiffer
(1927–1940)
Martha Gellhorn
(1940–1945)
Mary Welsh Hemingway
(1946–1961)
MODERNISM IN LITERATURE
Remarkable awards
Children:
Jack, 1923
Patrick, 1928
Gregory, 1931
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)
- Nobel prize in literature (1954) -
Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."
Main characteristics and authors
Ernest Hemingway poses with a water buffalo while
on safari in Africa, 1953-1954.
- 1960: he began a medical electro shock treatment to treat his mental state -> loss of memory
- 1961: spent the first half of the year fighting against paranoia and depression.
- July 2, 1961: committed suicide shooting himself on the head.
Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1960
and there he wrote "The Old Man and the Sea."
William Carlos Willams
Ezra Pound
Modernist literature:
Main features
Pessimism (sense of decay)
Experimentation
Emphasis on perception
Subjectivity and multiperspectivisim
Fragmentation
Delves into depths of the narrator
T. S. Elliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Modernism is an American Literary Movement from 1890-1940
- Impacted by industrialization, war, and changing values
- Known for international impact as well
- Popularized the use of "I" in novels
- Showcases the turmoil of the mind and soul
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner