Ernest Hemingway is one of the finest writers of all-time. We all know this. His books are legendary and frankly I’m surprised more movie adaptations of his books haven’t been done. My personal favorite book he’s written is The Old Man and the Sea. I think there was a crappy made for TV movie based on the book but wouldn’t it be an amazing movie? What if Patrick Stewart played the old man? Just throwing that out there.
In any event, one of Hemingway’s biggest themes in all of his books was tragedy. Most times these tragedies were loosely based on his life and the hard times he faced. Speaking of hard times check out this list of stuff Hemingway lived through in his life of 61 years.
He lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull. P.S. I’ve always loved this quote about him
“No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame.” The Sun Also Rises is written in the spare, tight prose that made Hemingway famous, and, according to James Nagel, “changed the nature of American writing.”
In 1954, when Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was 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.”
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