His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators, but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway died in 1961.
From these introductory remarks, it seems that this paper will look at the works of Hemingway, particularly The Old Man and the Sea and Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises), and expose some notions about his style. Already, the research seems to point to the perspective that Hemingway's works reflect a style, more than styles, that has developed during various phases in his life and experience; innocence transformed by experience generally. He used the American dialect in all its forms and was preoccupied with American problems and the need to resolve them. Thus, his language was deliberate in order that it be respected and to bring it to the heart of literary discourse, to redefine and reaffirm the basic human values of courage, honesty and dignity. Hemingway is "a writer of extraordinary freshness and power, as one of the makers, indeed, of a New American fiction."" (Robert Penn Warren p 35). It is important to note that his style would not only reflect the times and phases that he went through, but he would have been influenced by and learned from his literary forbears.
"Mark Twain, Flaubert, Stendhal, Bach, Turgeniev, Tolstoi,.
Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Maupassant,.
The good Kipling, Thoreau, Captain Marryat, Shakespeare, .
Mozart, Quevedo, Dante, Virgil, Tintoretto, Hieronymus Bosch,.
Breughel, Patinier, Goya, Giotto, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gaughin, .
San Juan de la Cruz, Gongora - it would take a day to remember.
everyone. Then it would sound as though I were claiming an.
erudition I did not possess instead of trying to remember all the.
people who have had an influence on my life and work .
