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Ernest Hemingway,
an outstanding American novelist, short story writer and
journalist of the 20th century, was a son of a country doctor.
Hemingway worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star after
graduating from high school in 1917. During World War I he
served as an ambulance driver in France and in the Italian
infantry and was wounded just before his 19th birthday. Later,
while working in Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto Star,
he became involved with the expatriate literary and artistic
circle surrounding Gertrude Stein. During the Spanish Civil War,
Hemingway served as a correspondent. He fought in World War II.
In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He
had a lot of ill health problems, and in July, 1961, he
committed suicide by shooting himself.
Hemingway's
fiction usually focuses on people living dangerous lives—
soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters — who meet the pain
and difficulty of their life with stoic courage. Hemingway's
first books, attracted attention because of his literary style.
His style, influenced by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, is
direct and often monotonous but very well suited to the subject
matter.
With the
publication of The Sun Also Rises (1926), he was recognized as
the spokesman of the lost generation' (so called by Gertrude
Stein). The novel describes a group of expatriates living in
postwar Paris. They are disillusioned and take psychological
refuge in such immediate physical activities as eating,
drinking, travelling — and love-making. His next important
novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929), tells of a tragic wartime love
affair between an ambulance driver and an English nurse.
Hemingway also published such volumes of short stories as Men
without Women (1927) and Winner Takes Nothing (1933), as well as
The Fifth Column, a play.
Hemingway's
nonfiction works, Death in the Afternoon (1932), about
bullfighting, and Green Hills of Africa (1935), about big-game
hunting, glorify bravery. From his experience in the Spanish
Civil War came Hemingway's great novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1940), which, describing an incident in the war, argues for
human brotherhood. His novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
celebrates the courage of an aged Cuban fisherman. Among
Hemingway's other works are the novels To Have and Have Not
(1937) and Across the River and into the Trees (1950); he also
edited an anthology of stories, Men at War (1942).
Translate the
following sentences into English.
1. Хемингуэй был выдающимся американским
писателем-романистом, новелистом и журналистом, он работал
репортером, служил водителем машины скорой помощи во время
Первой мировой войны, был ранен, служил корреспондентом во время
Второй мировой войны и покончил жизнь самоубийством.
2. В Париже он связался с литературно-художественным кружком
эмигрантов, главой которой была Гертруда Штайн, которая оказала
большое влияние на Хемингуэя.
3. Он знаменит своим стилем, прямым и часто монотонным, но очень
хорошо передающим предмет повествования.
4. В центре внимания его художественных произведений — люди,
ведущие опасную жизнь и стоически переносящие боль: участники
боя быков, солдаты, рыбаки.
5. Хемингуэй — признанный представитель «потерянного поколения»
— людей без иллюзий, искавших психологическое спасение в простых
физических действиях (отправлениях).
6. Нехудожественные произведения Хемингуэя посвящены бою быков и
охоте на крупного зверя и воспевают смелость.
1. Hemingway was an outstanding American
novelist, short story writer and journalist of the 20th century
and worked as a reporter, served as an ambulance driver during
World War I, was wounded, served as a correspondent during World
War II, and committed suicide.
2. In Paris he became involved with the expatriated literary and
artistic circle surrounding Gertrude Stein and was greatly
influenced by her.
3. He is famous for his style which is direct and often
monotonous but very well suited to the subject matter.
4. His fiction focuses on people living dangerous lives and
meeting pain with stoic courage — bullfighters, soldiers,
fishermen.
5. Hemingway is recognised as a spokesman of the 'lost
generation' — disillusioned people taking psychological refuge
in immediate physical activities.
6. Hemingway's nonfiction works are about bullfighting and
big-game hunting and glorify bravery.
Из пособия "ЕГЭ. Английский язык.
Устные темы" Занина Е.Л. (2010, 272с.) - Part
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