AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S NOVELS
Fatbardha DOKO, Lirie AMETI, Fatmire ISAKI
Abstract
As one of the greatest modernists, Ernest Hemingway is known for his iceberg theory and his minimalistic style of narration, and his novels are still being studied by scholars. In this paper we give an insight of how much of Hemingway’s life is present in his greatest novels. We have covered some of his greatest novels like Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Moveable Feast, Old Man and the Sea, etc. In these novels, the author wrote about a lot of events he experienced or participated, like the World War I, the World War II, the Spanish Civil War, etc.; he wrote about the places he had visited or been to, like Italy, Paris, Spain, Cuba, Africa, etc.; many of the characters in the novels are based on people Hemingway knew, met or encountered in his life, and he transmitted his own emotional state through these characters; We read about bullfighting, hunting, fishing, safaris, skiing, all sports that were familiar to Hemingway. All these novels are written in a very realistic and simple style, so that fact and fiction are masterfully combined in them. However, this paper would be just a little contribution for the work of this great novelist.
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