... the Bell Tolls. 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 ... started to, because I learn as much from painters about how to write as from writers . . . I should think what one learns from composers and from the study of harmony and counterpoint would be obvious."" Hemingway 1958 (Plimpton p 108) "There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...

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