海明威简介Hemingway.pptVIP

Hemingway’s fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives—soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters—who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic (坚忍的)courage。 Code hero “A man who lives correctly, followed the ideal of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful.” ----by Hemingway Endurance: to accept pain, even loss Pride: of knowing that one has done one’s best Courage: act truly according to one’s own nature Will: to face defeat or victory He is a man of action but not a thinker. Spirits of Code hero In the last part of the short story A Clean and Well-lighted Place, there is an evaluation about nada: “It was not fear or dread … It was all nothing and a man was nothing too… Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada… Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is whit thee.” The nada concept ---All nothing. “Nada” then focused on 1. man’s confrontation with the absence of God 2. indifference and hostility of the universe 3. absence of purpose, order, meaning, value a literary genre after the First World War in the United States applied to the disillusioned(理想破灭的)intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism. The lost Generation Time period: 1920s Source of the name: Gertrude Stein（格特鲁德·斯坦因）, preface to The Sun Also Rises That is what you are. Thats what you all are?... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.“ slogan of the USA to save the worlds democracy and with the ideals of democracy, they went to the European battlefield. Representatives Ernest Hemingway 海明威 Francis Scott Fitzgerald弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德 Ezra Pound 艾兹拉·庞德 Sherwood Anderson 舍伍德·安德森 William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳 Style Simple and terse Jou