Concetti Chiave
- Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, near Chicago, and developed a love for hunting and fishing through experiences with his father.
- Encouraged by teachers to write, he began his career as a reporter at the Kansas City Star, which deeply influenced his writing style.
- His war experiences, particularly during WWI in Italy, left a profound impact, inspiring novels like A Farewell to Arms.
- Hemingway worked as a correspondent in Europe and the US, drawing on his experiences to write novels such as For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- Despite international success, Hemingway struggled with writing in later years, battling depression that led to his suicide in 1961.
Ernest Hemingway, the second son of a large family, was born in Oak Park, a suburb not far from Chicago, 21 July 1899. In the company of his father, a doctor who loved the outdoors, it is introduced from childhood to ' love for hunting and fishing, which will remain his great passions for life. These are experiences of a formative relationship and almost initiatory with the nature that will subsequently expressions in some of his best stories.
Noting the earlier talented teachers encouraged him to write, and after graduation he was hired as a reporter from the Kansas City Star.
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The horror of the war in the trenches will leave an indelible mark in the development of his personality and the war experiences form the basis for A Farewell to Arms (1929), one of his most famous novels. Returning to the US, and celebrated his native town as a hero, he resumed his activity as a journalist, and began to work on some accounts, but can not re-adapt.
In 1920 lands in Europe as a correspondent for the Toronto Star; after starting for Spain, in 1929, Hemingway back in the US and settled in Key West, Fla.
In '37 he worked as a war correspondent with the American side and the experience will also take a narrative form in his famous novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, published in 1940 and written in Cuba where he moved in 1939. Despite the successes and internationally renowned, write the remains increasingly difficult; his pessimism grows, the image of old and manly Hemingway collapses suddenly. He manages to write a completely new story, the struggle of the fisherman Santiago recounted in The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Weakened in body for long periods is subject to a nervous depression that despite the care of friends and wife, 2 July 1961, will lead him to suicide.
Domande da interrogazione
- Quali esperienze formative hanno influenzato la scrittura di Ernest Hemingway?
- Come ha influenzato la carriera giornalistica di Hemingway la sua scrittura?
- Quali sono stati i momenti chiave della vita di Hemingway che hanno portato alla sua depressione e suicidio?
Le esperienze formative di Hemingway includono l'amore per la caccia e la pesca, trasmesso dal padre, e le esperienze di guerra che hanno lasciato un segno indelebile nella sua personalità, influenzando opere come "A Farewell to Arms".
La carriera giornalistica di Hemingway, iniziata al Kansas City Star e proseguita come corrispondente per il Toronto Star, ha avuto un'influenza profonda sulla sua scrittura, fornendogli esperienze e uno stile che si riflettono nei suoi romanzi.
Nonostante il successo internazionale, Hemingway ha affrontato una crescente difficoltà nello scrivere, un pessimismo crescente e una depressione nervosa che, nonostante le cure di amici e della moglie, lo hanno portato al suicidio il 2 luglio 1961.
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