For Whom the Bell Tolls

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
'By the death Ijf Ernest Hemingway we have lost a Titan,' wrote Cyril Connolly in 1961. 'He had the energy, the endurance, the Personal grandeur of the Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Tolstoy category.' Hemingway was twenty-five when his career as a writer seriously began. Twice decorated for his voluntary services in Italy in the First World War, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war of 1922, resigning from journalism two years later to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, renewing his earlier friendship with such fellow-American expatriâtes as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, whose encouragement and criticism were to play such a valuable part in the formation of his style. His first two published works were Three S tories and Ten Poems and In Our Time; the satirical novel The Torrents of Spring made him well known. But it was the next three books that established his international réputation: The Sun Also Rises (published in England as Fiesta in 1927), the... Tovább

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
'By the death Ijf Ernest Hemingway we have lost a Titan,' wrote Cyril Connolly in 1961. 'He had the energy, the endurance, the Personal grandeur of the Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Tolstoy category.' Hemingway was twenty-five when his career as a writer seriously began. Twice decorated for his voluntary services in Italy in the First World War, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war of 1922, resigning from journalism two years later to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, renewing his earlier friendship with such fellow-American expatriâtes as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, whose encouragement and criticism were to play such a valuable part in the formation of his style. His first two published works were Three S tories and Ten Poems and In Our Time; the satirical novel The Torrents of Spring made him well known. But it was the next three books that established his international réputation: The Sun Also Rises (published in England as Fiesta in 1927), the book of stories Men Without Women (1928) and the bestselling novel of love and war A Farewell to Arms (1929). Death in the Afternoon, published in 1932, is considered to be one of the greatest- treatises on bullfighting ever written. From his experiences on the battle-front of the Spanish Civil War grew the masterly For Whom the Bell Tolls, held by many to be his finest novel. Récognition of his eminence in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his classic taie The Old Man and the Sea. A Moveable Feast, the moving memoir of his early life in Paris, appeared in 1964. three years after his death. 'Papa' Hemingway had become a legend in his time: courageous, flamboyant, controversial, he created an idiom for his century. Vissza