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Concetti Chiave

  • Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois in 1899 and began his career as a reporter for the "Kansas City Star".
  • He volunteered as an ambulance driver in the Italian front during World War I and received a silver medal for his service.
  • Hemingway became part of the "lost generation" in Paris and published his first novel, "In Our Time," in 1924.
  • His works, such as "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms," often explored themes of courage and the horrors of war.
  • He won the Pulitzer Prize for "Old Man and The Sea" in 1953 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

Indice

  1. Infanzia e carriera iniziale
  2. Esperienze di guerra e primi romanzi
  3. Successi letterari e riconoscimenti

Infanzia e carriera iniziale

Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois in 1899. He worked as a reporter for the “Kansas City Star”. When America decided to enter the Great War, he tried to join the army, but he was rejected because of defective eye. Finally he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front and received a silver medal from the Italian government.

Esperienze di guerra e primi romanzi

Back to the United States he got a job as a foreign correspondent and went in Paris where he entered in a group of expatriate writers called “the lost generation”. In 1924 wrote her first novel In Our Time recalling the experiences of his childhood. Two next year he wrote The Sun Also Rises which showed his love of exotic settings and situations where violent actions reveal courage and endurance. In 1929 he wrote A Farewell to Arms, a love story that talks about the horrors of the war and at the same time the best American novel ever written on World War I. When he shift to Key West, he went to an African hunting safari, that would lead to many stories, such as The Snows of Kilimangiaro and The Green Hills of Africa. During the Spanish Civil War he was a correspondent for an American news agency and this experience was recorded in For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Successi letterari e riconoscimenti

In 1953 her novel Old Man and The Sea won Pulitzer Prize in fiction, while Across the river and into the Trees, Island in the Stream and The Garden of the Eden were criticized. In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and then, because of her depression he committed suicide in 1961.

Domande da interrogazione

  1. Quali esperienze di guerra hanno influenzato i primi romanzi di Ernest Hemingway?
  2. Le esperienze di guerra di Hemingway, come il suo servizio come autista di ambulanze sul fronte italiano e il suo ruolo di corrispondente durante la Guerra Civile Spagnola, hanno influenzato romanzi come "A Farewell to Arms" e "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

  3. Quali sono stati i principali successi letterari di Ernest Hemingway?
  4. Tra i principali successi letterari di Hemingway ci sono "The Old Man and The Sea", che vinse il Premio Pulitzer nel 1953, e il Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1954.

  5. Come ha influenzato la vita personale di Hemingway la sua carriera letteraria?
  6. La carriera letteraria di Hemingway, sebbene coronata da successi come il Premio Nobel, è stata segnata anche da critiche e dalla depressione, che alla fine lo portarono al suicidio nel 1961.

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