All posts tagged Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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To Have and Have Not

Published on December 10, 2022

Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not is a commentary on the time of The Great Depression told from multiple viewpoints. He wrote it sporadically between 1935 and 1937. Then revised it as he traveled back and forth from Spain during the Spanish Civil War. The novel portrays Key West and Cuba in the 1930s and provides a social commentary on that time and place. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers described the novel as heavily influenced by the Marxist ideology. Hemingway was...

The Sun Also Rises

Published on November 29, 2016

Jake Barnes, a journalist and World War I veteran narrates The Sun Also Rises . He is impotent due to a war injury. Jake is in love with Lady Brett Ashley, a beautiful and independent woman. Ashley and Robert Cohn (writer and former amateur boxer) are in a tumultuous relationship. The characters are part of a circle of expats living in Paris. They seek to escape the emptiness and disillusionment of post-war society. The group travels to Pamplona for the...