Ernest_Hemingway海明威英文PPT介绍.

1、Life and experiences born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois worked for a few months as a reporter for The Kansas City Star after leaving high schoolleft for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War IIn 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. His warti

2、me experiences became the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms.*In 1922, Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives, and the couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent.: During his time there, he met and was influenced by modernist writers and artists o

3、f the 1920s expatriate community known as the *1 Lost GenerationM His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 19262W.After divorcing Hadley Richardson in 1927, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced following Hemingway's return from covering the Spanish Civil War, after whic

4、h he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls.Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940; they separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. During the war, he was present during the Normandy Landings and the liberation of Paris. Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in

5、1952(winning Pulitzer Prize in May 1952 & the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954),Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life.Literary Works The Sun Also Rises (1926)太阳照样升起 A Farewell to Arms

6、(1929)永别 了，武器 For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940)丧钟为谁而鸣(战地钟声) The Old Man and the Sea (1952)老人与海The Old Man and the Sea (1952)老人与海ERNESTHEMINGNRVThe Old Man and the SeaIn 1954, when Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was for "his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently de

7、monstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style".Short story collections： Men without Women (1927)没有女人 的男人 Winner Take Nothing (1933)胜者无所 得-The Fifth Column (1940)第五纵队A spokesman for the LostGenerationThe term "Most generation5 was coi

8、ned by Gertrude Stein, a lost generation writer herself, after World War I. It was between the first and second World Wars. Speaking to Ernest Hemingway, she said, nyou are all a lost generation.* The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against w

9、hat America had become by the 1900s. Seeking the bohemian lifestyle and rejecting the values of American materialism, a number of intellectuals poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post World War I years Paris was the center of it all. Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought

10、the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to dateHemingway's Heroes Hemingway' fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters who meet the pain and difficulty of

11、 their existence with stoic courage.TheHemi ngway CodeHero准则英雄、硬汉子 The phrase, Hemingway code hero originated with scholar Philip Young He uses it to describe a Hemingway character who lives correctly, following certain principles of honor, courage, and endurance which in a life of tension and pain

12、make a man a man.TheHemi ngway CodeHero准则英雄、硬汉子:* Throughout many of Hemingways novels the code hero acts in a manner which allowed the critic to formulate a particular codehe does not talk about what he believes in.- He does not talk too much He expresses himself not in words, but in actions. The H

13、emingway man is not a thinker, he is a man of action. But his actions are based upon a concept of life.TheHemi ng way Cod eHeroThe Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their indestructible spirit.A man can be destroyed but not defeatedFrom The Old Man and the SeaWriting Style Simplicity, economy of expression Diction: concrete, specific commonly found, Anglo-Saxon, casual and conversational words, with few adverbs or adjective