... 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 ... - as if English were a strange language that he had studied or invented for himself and was trying to write in its original purity."" Following on the heels of American novelists like Henry James and, even earlier, Herman Melville, to whom Hemingway was inevitably compared as a writer of "fisherman ... adu...

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... format of his prose that he cleverly called "The Iceberg Principle." In a 1958 interview in "The Paris Review" Hemingway described his iceberg principle. "I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is 7/8 of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It ... Rises that Hemingway first introduced us to "The Iceberg Principle." The literary critic Philip Young, who has built a respectable reputation for his analysis of Hemingway literature, aides in the breakdown of the story to show the layers of the...

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