(1898-1961) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his famous book The Old Man and the Sea, which is about human strength in fighting both external natural things and bad sides of one’s character („A man can be destroyed but not defeated.“). Hemingway became a journalist after WWI. A Farewell to Arms is one of the best novels about WWI. It is a love story of an American lieutenant in the Italian Ambulance Service and an English nurse. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a psychological picture of war given on an episode from the Spanish Civil War. One of the best parts of the novel is Robert Jordan’s monologue about what a beautiful place the world is and how much it is worth fighting for. His other famous novels are Fiesta, Death in the Afternoon, A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream. Hemingway is a master in short story writing.
His father was a doctor and mother was an artist. Father loved fishing and hunting. Ernest inherited these passions. His character was very similar to his father´s character. They travelled a lot and they liked fishing. He started to write to the newspapers as he was at the high school. When the world war one started he became a volunteer and he spent that time in Italy as a driver of ambulance of Red Cross. He was seriously injured. He was operated in Milano, his led was damaged. After world war the first. He returned to America and he was disappointed because he met just misunderstanding because he had his experience and nobody who didn´t experience it couldn´t understand him. He decided to go back to Europe to Paris. He met there woman called Gertrude Stein. She was born in America but lived just in Paris. She was writer and the patron of the art. She influenced Ernest´s writing very much. There gathered significant people in her house (Picasso, Matis, etc.). He named this group of people The Lost Generation. He participated in the Spanish civil war as the war reporter. Then started the world war two and he was in London and he take part at the invasion to Normandy on the D day. He also liberated Paris. Then he returned to America, he was married four times. He spent his time in Cuba and he spent on hunting in Africa, he also visited Spain – he loved bull fighting. He suffered from very deep depression and he lost whole his creativity and inspirations. He was treated by electroshocks in hospital but it didn’t work. Three days after returning from hospital he committed a suicide with a shotgun as his father had done before.
He wrote three significant books. His first book A Farewell to Arms is probably his autobiography written in Italy. It´s about American ambulance driver who met very beautiful English nurse. They felt in love. She born the child, child died and the mother died also, soldier stayed alone.
From The Whom The Bell Tolls is about American soldier who fought on the side of the Spain guerrillas (partisans) against fascism. He got the special task to destroy a bridge which was important for transporting. During his mission in Spain he felt in love with Spanish girl Maria. The soldier was seriously injured, he sent his group soldiers away and he waited for enemies alone and then he could shot enemies. He saved the others but he died.
The Old Man And The Sea was awarded by the Nobel Prize. The old sea man has nice relationship with the young boy who goes fishing with the old man. Parents banned the boy to go fishing because they didn´t get any fish. After several days the man caught a gear fish and they struggled. Fish pulled the man to the open sea. When the great fish finally died sharks came and they ate whole fish and only skeleton left when the old man returned to the shore. He won the fought against the fish, nature and the ocean but none of the fish left.
“The man can be destroyed but not defeated.”