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On Writing" is a story fragment written by Ernest Hemingway which he omitted from the end of his short story, "Big Two-Hearted River", when it was published in 1925 in In Our Time. It was then published after Hemingway's death in the 1972 collection The Nick Adams Stories .
Hemingway's pared down narrative forces the reader to solve connections. As Stoltzfus remarks: "Hemingway walks the reader to the bridge that he must cross alone without the narrator's help." [20] Hemingway believed that if context or background had been written about by another, and written about well, then it could be left out of his writing.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ / HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.
Hemingway writing in Kenya, 1953. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) [1] was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction.
On Writing may refer to: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, a memoir by American author Stephen King "On Writing", a story fragment by American writer Ernest Hemingway; Stein on Writing, advice for writers by American writer Sol Stein
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Thomas Strychacz compares Hemingway's prose to Pound's poetry, writing, "Hemingway's terse, tight-lipped, tightly wound fragments are equally extraordinary in their dramatic intensity." [82] The taut style is apparent from the first vignette, [79] in which a brigade of drunken soldiers march to Champagne.