Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was famous for his writings for which he also received the Nobel prize in literature in 1954. He was awarded the prize in 1954 for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.

Ernest Hemingway died on July 2nd 1961 in an age of 65 years, in his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
Ernest Hemingway was born 21st of July 1899 in the Upscale Chicago Illinois. His father Clarence was a physician, and his mother Grace was former opera singer.
His literary style, that is known as “The Iceberg Technique” is characteristic for a new, lean, clear prose based on action rather than reflection. He employed a technique in which he would leave out essential information about the story under the belief that omission can sometimes add strength to a narrative. It was a style of subtlety which contrasted greatly (and in a way enhanced) the themes he wrote about...war, blood and sports - like bullfighting or boxing, crime, etc.

Ernest Hemingway had some special "code" heroes, who almost always had the same characteristics. The hero does not let his fear get to him, and he is courageous, confident and introspective. The hero is introduced differently and changes between being old and young. It is a normal person, who through the story turns into a hero. Some of the heroes, for example his character Nick reflects Hemingway himself in many ways.

Contrary Hemingway's very masculine men, his women are very feminine. The reader gets to know the women as either love objects or anti-love figures.

He writes about two types of women the so-called "all-woman" who submits herself entirely to the hero of the story, and the so-called "femme fatale" who contains an individual woman and makes sure that the hero could never possess her completely.

In Hemingway’s opinion, the so-called "all-woman" is the most acceptable. His opinion about women was greatly influenced by his relationship to his mother, who he blamed for his father’s suicide. 

His private life, was in many ways reflected in his literature. Ernest Hemingway became known for travelling a lot. Part of his life, he lived in Key West. He lived in Key West with his wife Mary, for more than ten years, they stayed mostly because of the nature and due to the fact that Ernest loved fishing.

 Ernest Hemingway's wife Mary was also the one who found him for the last time in their house.

Anne og Christina.

 

 

 

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in the upscale Chicago of Oak Park, Illinois. He was the second of six children and a son of a physician and a former opera performer. Not surprising; Heming turned out to be one of the greatest authors of America. Unfortunately he was found dead this morning, and until now the police has only expressed that his death was caused by suicide.

The life of Hemingway is remarkable. It was marked by success, impressionism, artists, love affairs, marriages, kids, alcoholism and depressions. In his youth he lived in the Old Town Key West which was the place for the most famous authors of America. He lived and wrote here for more than ten years because of his attraction to the water. During WWI Hemingway still lived in America where he worked as an ambulance driver after having failed in the army. Later on he moved to Paris and Milan, where he fell in love with Agnes Von Kurowsky who did not return his love but instead she served as inspiration for one of Hemingsway’s novels.
After the war he got married with Elizabeth Hadley Richardson with whom he moved to Paris where he started working as a European correspondent. By 1927 Hemingway’s first marriage was over but the same year he married Pauline Pfeiffer, a fashion reporter from Paris. In 1928 Hemingway and Pfeiffer left Paris and moved to Key West. In the summer of 1933 they travelled to Africa for a safari, and through this trip Hemingway got an image as a great hunter and as an outdoorsman.  20 years later Hemingway returned to Africa with his fourth wife. 

In 1936 - a year after the start of the Spanish Civil War - Hemingway went to Spain to cover the conflict for the American Newspaper. He worked together with a woman named Martha Gellhorn with whom he got married in 1940 and afterwards they moved to Cuba for 20 years. In 1944 Hemingway travelled back to Europe to report on World War II. His first stop was London, and here he met his fourth wife; a reporter named Mary Welsh. In this period Hemingway wrote his most famous book; The Old Man and the Sea which garnered him a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and a Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. Hemingway ended up spending the rest of his days in Ketchum, Idaho, a small community outside Sun Valley.

During his life Hemingway pioneered a new style of writing where he did away with all the florid prose of the 19^th century Victorian era and replaced it with a lean, clear prose based on action rather than reflection. His writing style is characterized by a technique by which he would leave out essential information of the story under the belief that omission can sometimes add strength to a narrative. It was a style of subtlety which contrasted greatly his themes.
Besides his writing style Hemingway is well known for his “code heroes”. ‘The men from his stories do all have different qualities with the one thing in common; they are grace under pressure. Opposite his view on men he saw woman as manipulators (this thought may be caused by the way he viewed his mother) but still he created a phenomenon “all-woman” (a femme-fatale described by her beauty and submissive to the hero).

All things considered Hemingway was a legend, who we with deep regret have lost today. He changed the literature and made deep impressions all over the world. 

Annemette Floridon, Anna Kyhn

American Newspaper

July 2^nd, 1961

A man can be destroyed but not defeated

Death: Ernest Hemmingway the famous modernist writer is dead, 62 years old.

Ernest Hemmingway once said: “A man can be destroyed but not defeated”. Now he is defeated. Ernest Hemmingway is dead, 62 years old. His full name was Ernest Miller Hemmingway. The surname is American and one of the finest within the art of writing. The father was a physician, and his mother a former opera performer. Despite his father’s objections

Success from the beginning

When Ernest Hemmingway began in high school he showed a special talent for writing. He wrote for the school newspaper and for the yearbook Tabula. Hemmingway was so into writing that he decided to drop an education to put all his strength into writing. He got a job at the Kansas City Star, which he got heavily inspired by. His short period of time at the paper influenced his style of writing by using the short declarative statements. Hemmingway selected only the elements essential to the story and push everything else away. He kept his prose direct and unadorned. Using a technique he called “iceberg principle”.   

Alcohol, divorces, moving and depression  

Ernest Hemmingway ended his life at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He spent a lot of time moving around the world in a mix of working and writing. Due to lack of sight Hemmingway could not join the US army. Instead he signed up to drive an ambulance in Italy during World War 1. He was being hospitalized because of a bad injury and fell in love with a nurse who took care of him. Unlucky their relationship did not last. Many people believe that he wrote he famous novel, “A Farewell to Arms”. Ernest Hemmingway also spent several years in Key West. In Key West Hemmingway was able to do the sport he was so in love with: sailing. In more than ten years he sailed and wrote in Key West. In the face of success and wealth, depression and drinking lured underneath. Within the last twenty years of his life he consumed a quarter of whiskey every day. This alcoholism may be the cause of a depression which plagued him in his late life. Martin Schultz.   

Obituary

Last Sunday morning (July 2, 1961) the great author Ernest Miller Hemmingway was found dead, he committed suicide.

He was born on July 21, 1899. In his early life, he lived in Chicago with his father Clarence, a physician, and his mother Grace who was a former opera performer. During World War I, he graduated from High School. When he turned 18, he tried to enlist in the army. Unfortunately he was rejected because of poor vision. He became an ambulance driver instead. He was sent to Europe where he was badly wounded and hospitalized in Milan. He felt in love with the nurse Agnes von Kurowsky. Later he lived and wrote for more than ten years in Key West. He suffered through a lot of accidents and disorders in his life. He liked to drink a lot of whiskey, but it was not the alcohol that killed him though.

Hemingway will be remembered for his spectacular writing style. Highly important is, that he based his prose on action rather than reflection. His approach to women in his writing was mainly masculine. He did not go into their inner thoughts and feminine world. Hemingway’s “theory of omission" or "iceberg principle" is all about that if a writer knows enough about the stories topic, he may omit things that he knows. Then the reader will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. “The Hemingway Hero” is defined by a static set of characteristics. Always courageous, confident, and introspective. The Hero is expressed differently in each of his novels, though. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.

The funeral will be in Ketchum, Idaho, where Hemmingway lived since 1959.

Journalist: Nanna Mortensen

Ernest Hemmingway
Obituary

Ernest Hemmingway 62 died today, July 2^nd 1961.  He was the son of a doctor and was born in Chicago Illinois on 21^st of July 1899. For more than 10 years he lived in the old town Key West. During the First World War he worked as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. But his biggest passion was his writing and he pioneered a new writing method, emphasizing action rather than reflection. His literature was awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1954. Ernest Hemmingway committed suicide. He died as a code-hero The world has suffered a great lost. He will be missed.

Funeral service: 10.30 AM Friday Edward-Dowdle Funeral Home

Published in the American Newspaper July 2^nd 1961.

Journalists: Naomi Altamirano and Sofie Jarlstrøm Clausen