ernest hemingway, the sun also rises (1926). “you are all a lost generation.” gertrude stein
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Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“You are all a lost generation.”
Gertrude Stein
1. Expatriation and Europe
2. War and technology
3. Style and form
1. Expatriation and Europe
2. War and technology
3. Style and form
• ‘Theory of omission’• Minimisation and submergence of ‘literariness’• Authorial objectivity?• Realism Modernism
“If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them.” Death in the Afternoon
“The story was about coming back from the war but there was no mention of the war in it.”
Hemingway, in A Moveable Feast (1964), discussing his short story ‘The Big Two-Hearted River’
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