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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -American writer -Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature -A legendary figure in American literature During WWI, he served as an ambulance driver in Italy; During WWII, he first worked for the US navy and then acted as a reporter with the British Air Force. Later he hunted and explored in the African jungles, and fished on the Cuban seas. July 2, 1961, he died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds He was injured many times and survived three automobile accidents and two air crashes. From wounds in the war, 237 steel fragments were taken out of his body. All these sports and war experiences became his subjects and themes later. Hemingway was a negative writer (书写负面事物的作家); it is difficult for him to say “yes”. He held a dark, naturalistic (自然主义式的) view of the world, saw it as “all a nothing,” and saw life in terms of battles and tension, which was nothingness (虚无) for him. Representative Works The Sun Also Rises 1926 《太阳照样升起》 A Farewell to Arms 1929 《永别了， 武器》 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940 《丧钟为谁而鸣》 The Old Man and the Sea 1952 《老人与海》 In Paris, Hemingway’s distinct style began to develop, with a Hemingway theme and a Hemingway hero. All his life, Hemingway wrote about one theme, “grace under pressure”, and created one hero who acts that theme out. In Hemingway’s chaotic and meaningless world, man fights a solitary struggle against a force he does not understand. The awareness that he must end in defeat, no matter how hard he fights against it, engenders a sense of despair. But the Hemingway hero possesses “despairing courage”. It is this courage that enables a man to behave like a man, to assert his dignity in face of adversity. This is the essence of a code of honor in which all the Hemingway heroes believe. All his works dramatize this concept: life is dangerous and always ready to defeat and destroy you, but if you stand on your principles, you may win on your own terms, though you get nothing except the knowledge that you have played w