2024-07-21 08:00:35
Ernest Hemingway is considered a literary giant and he portrayed himself as an outspoken entertainer for today’s society. His life ended in vain.
If Ernest Hemingway were still alive, today’s society would have to work through it: The American represents the true daredevil’s masculinity and femininity. The writer was a big game hunter, war veteran, reporter and deep-sea angler – and someone who could not resist slavery or women. Today (July 21st) the Nobel Prize winner would have been 125 years old.
More than 60 years ago, the Nobel Prize winner took his own life because his life as a ghost was a combination of depression and self-doubt. Suicide was not an isolated incident in the Hemingway family.
At the beginning of his life, young Ernest Miller Hemingway had nothing physically. Born in 1899 in the Chicago area, the doctor’s son grew up in a safe and educational environment. But to his parents’ dismay, the young man put his interests on the line and decided to become a reporter in Kansas and serve in the First World War as an ambulance driver.
Dealing with war
After a serious injury in Italy and a broken love, he returned and continued writing. At first he wrote stories for newspapers, then news and finally novels. Hemingway’s breakthrough came in 1926 with “Fiesta.” The book is most famous for its description of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, but it is mainly about the lives of Parisian artists who take place in cafes.
The main character is a journalist in Kansas, becomes an ambulance driver in Italy, suffers severe injuries there – and becomes weak. The parallels to Hemingway’s own life are obvious, but the inevitability? Hemingway was not that, at least not forever, as his first two marriages produced three children.
The writer has always been fascinated by the all-consuming nature of war. During the Spanish Civil War he was a war correspondent, on D-Day in June 1944 he crossed the English Channel with American troops and experienced combat in Normandy, France.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica wrote in its article about Hemingway: “He also participated in the liberation of Paris and, although he was a journalist, he impressed the professional soldiers not only as a heroic man in the war, but also as a true professional in military affairs. guerrilla activities and information gathering.” However, the writer is also considered mentally fragile among his friends. Like some people who want to find relief with alcohol, but who only make everything worse.
Really out of fashion
After all, in 1950, the New York Times called him “the most important writer since the death of William Shakespeare.” Four years later he won the Nobel Prize in Literature – long in the opinion of his fans and his.
Today we look at it more statistically; Her works, like those of other literary writers such as Jack London, Irwin Shaw and Norman Mailer, have fallen out of fashion in part because of the portrayal of female roles.
When Hemingway was 29, his father committed suicide. This burden followed him throughout his life, including depression, pressure to succeed and alcohol. At that time, it was treated with electric shocks. There was also paranoia: Hemingway had been involved with Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, but often ignored his atrocities. In his final years, he was convinced that the FBI was monitoring his every move.
A series of suicides in the family
On July 2, 1961, Hemingway committed suicide with his favorite shotgun. “An accident,” the family initially explained. Many years later his fourth wife, Mary, confessed that she killed herself. This does not surprise anyone anymore. It was not an isolated case in the Hemingway family: his sister Ursula (1966), his brother Leicester (1982) and his daughter Margaux (1996) committed suicide. Hemingway’s third and youngest child died in a women’s prison in Miami in 2001. Gloria – her birth name was Gregory – had undergone gender reassignment surgery. (dpa)
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