ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

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One of the greatest and the most influential American writers. He was born in 1899 in Oak Park. Hemingway entered great literature as a short story writer with such collections as “In Our Time” (1925), “Men Without Women” (1927), “Winner Take Nothing” (1933). He also known as the author of successful novels “The Sun Also Rises” (1926), “A Farewell top Arms” (1929), “ To Have and Have Not” (1937), “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1940). Hemingway got famous as the writer of the lost generation the young people who after suffering the horrors and futility of war returned from it disillusioned, carrying physical and psychic scars. He detested war and fascism in all of its forms.

Hemingway's style was bare, detached and direct, marked by precision, selectivity, relevant details, uncompromising economy and clarity of style. His other characteristic traits are understatement, various cases of reiteration, parallel constructions and key-words. Hemingway's text is the result of a painstaking selection process, each word performing an assigned function in the narrative. The main working corollary of Hemingway's “iceberg principle” is that the full meaning of the text is not limited to moving the plot forward: there is always a web of association and inference, a submerged reason behind the inclusion (or even the omission) of every detail.