... that makes his style so notable. Bernard Bereson summarized brilliantly what it is about Hemingway's prose that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. No real artist symbolizes or allegorizes - and Hemingway is a real artist - but every ... Hemingway's writing. He demonstrates time and time again that he is capable of breaking his own rules. Pilar's story in chapter 10 of For Whom the Bell Tolls maintains the precision and intensity of ...

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... and yet (paradoxically) natural language."" (Breit p 79) Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899 in Chicago. In 1917 he joined the Kansas City "Star- as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered to work as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. There he also did some reporting. He returned to America in 1919 and married in 1921. Attracted by ... to Arms. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big game hunting and deep-sea fishing, and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller, For Whom the Bell ...

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