When did Ernest Hemingway say this quote?
The quote can be found in Ernest Hemingway's introduction to the book, "Treasury for the Free World" by Ben Raeburn in 1946. Hemingway is unmistakably direct about the criminality of war. Following is the snippet of the foreword: "We have waged war in the most ferocious and ruthless way that has ever been waged. We waged it against fierce and ruthless enemies that it was necessary to destroy. Now we have destroyed one of our enemies and forced the capitulation of the other. For the moment, we are the strongest power in the world. It is very important that we do not become the most hated….We need to study and understand certain basic problems….and remember that no weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution, but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn aggressive at the earliest moment is the great counter crime….We never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified is not a crime. Ask the infantry and the dead."
What was Ernest Hemingway like as a father?
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What are some of Ernest Hemingway's must reads?
I’ll take it that you mean by Hemingway. In that case, I’ll condense his best works into the top four:The Old Man and the Sea - What can I say? Nobel prize, regarded as one of the best works of literature ever, etc, etc…Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - My favourite Hemingway story. Simply an amazing piece of literature, and a damned good read. Emotions, sights, sounds, smells… It’s all painted in rich, broad strokes by Hemingway’s masterful hand. Simply a masterpiece.For Whom the Bell Tolls - A brilliant evocation of war, and the toils of love.A Movable Feast - If this doesn’t make you want to move to Monmartre, nothing will. The only diary/personal writing I’ve ever enjoyed.These are, in my opinion, the essential Hemingways. If you had to pick any of these, however, please make it Fiesta. It is perfect.
What can / should be learnt from Ernest Hemingway?
To be curious and to listen. Hemingway’s writing draws on his great curiosity about other places, other people, and other cultures. He asked questions and really listened to what people had to say. He observed closely, and loved in particular to watch people who were serious about doing something well.To love words and appreciate the craft of writing. He approached writing with discipline and forged a new style, and he continued to evolve and try new things, so that we can find not one style (as is often assumed) but many styles in his work.To love life. Hemingway’s writing is full of an exuberant zest for living. But here there is danger too, and Hemingway eventually found himself worried--with good reason--that he was “selling vitality” and using up his life in the process. He also became increasingly obsessed with excitement and adventure and intoxication at the expense of an appreciation for the satisfactions of daily living.That a persona, and perhaps especially a highly successful one, can be a prison, and that what we think we know about a person can be entirely wrong. I’m thinking in particular of Hemingway’s struggles with gender identity, which have only come fully to light with the publication of his posthumous work. But Hemingway’s macho “famous author” persona was limiting and soul-killing in many ways.That nothing quite feeds the self’s worst demons like alcohol, which writes “all is permitted” across the days of one’s life and keeps one blind to the accumulating wreckage until it is too late.
Ernest Hemingway Question?
The influence of Hemingway's writings on American literature was considerable and continues today. Indeed, the influence of Hemingway's style was so widespread that it may be glimpsed in most contemporary fiction, as writers draw inspiration either from Hemingway himself or indirectly through writers who more consciously emulated Hemingway's style. In his own time, Hemingway affected writers within his modernist literary circle. James Joyce called "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" "one of the best stories ever written". Pulp fiction and "hard boiled" crime fiction (which flourished from the 1920s to the 1950s) often owed a strong debt to Hemingway. During World War II, J. D. Salinger met and corresponded with Hemingway, whom he acknowledged as an influence. In one letter to Hemingway, Salinger wrote that their talks "had given him his only hopeful minutes of the entire war," and jokingly "named himself national chairman of the Hemingway Fan Clubs." Hunter S. Thompson often compared himself to Hemingway, and terse Hemingway-esque sentences can be found in his early novel, The Rum Diary. Thompson's later suicide by gunshot to the head mirrored Hemingway's. Hemingway's terse prose style--"Nick stood up. He was all right"-- is known to have inspired Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland and many Generation X writers. Hemingway's style also influenced Jack Kerouac and other Beat Generation writers. Hemingway also provided a role model to fellow author and hunter Robert Ruark, who is frequently referred to as "the poor man's Ernest Hemingway". In Latin American literature, Hemingway's impact can be seen in the work of fellow Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. Beyond the more formal literature authors, popular novelist Elmore Leonard, who authored scores of Western and Crime genre novels, cites Hemingway as his preeminent influence and this is evident in his tightly written prose. Though he never claimed to write serious literature, he did say, "I learned by imitating Hemingway....until I realized that I didn't share his attitude about life. I didn't take myself or anything as seriously as he did."
Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home"?
For my AP English class we were assigned an essay prompt on one of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, "Soldier's Home." The prompt reads: Argue for or against the following statement: Krebs, of Hemingway’s Soldier’s Home, is an autobiographical character. Can somebody help me out with this? I missed the documentary on Hemingway that we watched in class so I don't have a very good idea about Hemingway's life. Would you say that Hemingway wrote the character Krebs in an attempt to mimic his own life? Is there any specific evidence from the story or Hemingway's life? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
What is so unique about Ernest Hemingway?
Ernest Hemingway is one of those rare people who singlehandedly changed the world.He changed the style of narrative fiction in English literature, granted, so he's not up there with Alexander, Newton, or Locke, but still.Before Hemingway, it was mostly accepted that literary narrative in English had to adhere to a formal style. It had certain forms and conventions distinct from the spoken language, conserved from older language.Hemingway represented the final step in a process. People talk about his mechanics. Bullet sentences. Phrases instead of sentences.But that's not really the point. Those are just details. What he really did was make it fashionable to write narrative the way we talk. That fashion stuck. Even writers who push back against that paradigm, like David Foster Wallace, can't escape it completely.Think of languages like French, Italian, or Russian where literary usage is distinct. French has an entire verb tense used in literary narrative that is never used in speech. That's an example of what Hemingway was pushing against in English.He changed everything.If you write fiction in English, you owe your style to Hemingway even if you don't know it.
Did Ernest Hemingway speak the way he wrote?
Yes, “Papa” Ernest Hemingway spoke much the way he wrote only even more abruptly, using mostly undecorated nouns and verbs and dropping adjectives as if they had no use at all. He once referred to his manner of speaking as “Injun Talk.” It seems to have been even more effort to speak the truth in only many words as were required.Here is an excerpt from Lillian Ross’s famous May 13, 1950 The New Yorker interview with Hemingway to illustrate:He [Hemingway]was in no hurry to get into Manhattan. He crooked the arm around the briefcase into a tight hug and said that it contained the unfinished manuscript of his new book, “Across the River and into the Trees.” He crooked the arm around the wiry little man into a tight hug and said he had been his seat companion on the flight. The man’s name, as I got it in a mumbled introduction, was Myers, and he was returning from a business trip to Cuba. Myers made a slight attempt to dislodge himself from the embrace, but Hemingway held on to him affectionately.“He read book all way up on plane,” Hemingway said. He spoke with a perceptible Midwestern accent, despite the Indian talk. “He like book, I think,” he added, giving Myers a little shake and beaming down at him.“Whew!” said Myers.“Book too much for him,” Hemingway said. “Book start slow, then increase in pace till it becomes impossible to stand. I bring emotion up to where you can’t stand it, then we level off, so we won’t have to provide oxygen tents for the readers. Book is like engine. We have to slack her off gradually.”“Whew!” said Myers.Hemingway released him. “Not trying for no-hit game in book,” he said. “Going to win maybe twelve to nothing or maybe twelve to eleven.”Myers looked puzzled.Ernest Hemingway Visits New York (How Do You Like it Now, Gentlemen?)
Why did Ernest Hemingway say that you need to bring the weather into your writing?
He was saying that atmosphere (the general tone and mood of the story’s setting) is a powerful opportunity for punchy, descriptive narrative that enhances the overall aesthetic effect of the scene in which it appears, and can be used thematically and symbolically throughout the plot as a hook on which to hang the reader’s expectations and sense of the overall plot.In real life, we naturally (as evolved creatures competing in an often hostile natural environment) associate certain weather conditions by instinct with certain base emotional moods.Consider two standard clichés/tropes:“Warm sunshine on the green grass and the smell of ripe apples in the air on a late summer afternoon before the corn of the field comes in with the harvest, and a fluff of white cloud marbling the clear blue dome of the sky” creates a sense of peace and contentment.By contrast, “thunderous, lightning-stricken, black clouds underlit by the hellish red light of a rumbling volcano spewing lava and burning rock and ash into the sky” creates a natural sense of dread.As the author, you are all-powerful god of your story world. In real life, an unexpected gust of wind blows the hero’s hat from his head at a pivotal moment, and he chases comically after his hat. In the story world, a fresh, steady breeze riffles his cape theatrically.But “bring the weather into your writing” conveys this idea so much more concisely, and is alliterative to boot.
Would Ernest Hemingway be as famous nowadays?
I think to understand if he'd be just as famous now, it's important to understand why he was famous in the first place. Then maybe that question can be answered with a bit of knowledge. Hemingway wasn't just a good writer. He introduced a fresh style of writing. It was a minimalistic style, where the most plot was revealed with the fewest words possible. Instead of giving outright explanations, Hemingway heavily omitted what most writers would consider crucial points, and concentrated on seemingly trivial points. He called it the Iceberg Theory where the "tip" of his writing hinted at the greater mass underwater. While some have used this style of writing, few have done it so severely as Hemingway. Hemingway had a love of this style, and adhered to it fervently, advocating his style as much or more than the stories he told. Plenty of people disliked this sparse writing style, and most of his burgeoning fame came after his life. People would say his style is now obsolete, but they're wrong. Though no one writes with the same degree of minimalizing words, he set the quality standard for how things can still be explained even if they're not referenced directly. Would he be as famous now? I would say...eventually. They didn't all like his books when he was around, and maybe we'd follow that trend too. His writing is HARD to fully grasp. But in the end, they'd still become enduring classics, in my opinion. It comes down to whether his style of writing would be around right now, without him writing it as he did in the past. Or would it be as radical as it was back then? It messes with your head.