ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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Ernest Hemingway was very interested in Sport. This finds expression through his literary works in the obsession with the parallels between sport and the struggles of living. His passion for bullfighting can be explained when one sees how fascinating it is that a man will hone his skill everyday just so that he can test his mastery in a battle to the death between the bull and the man. In order to appreciate the drama in this, one has to develop a perspective on the dangers and the cruelties that this situation presents. His writing explored this very dichotomy, between ambition and struggle. Such is the underlying theme pursued in The Old Man and the Sea


Well known portrait by Helen Breaker, 1928


By the mid 1930’s, Hemingway was on his way to becoming the best known fisherman in America. Shown here with a marlin catch, his passion became the setting for the novel, The Old Man and the Sea.


The hunter - with a dead leopard, 1953

 


Writing during a Safari in Africa, 1953


As an ambulance driver during World War I when he served in battles in the north of Italy. ‘Farewell to Arms’, his first novel was based directly on this experience.

Author of "The Old Man and the Sea"