ENGL 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ernest Hemingway, Pullet Surprise, Matthew Hays
4 Jul 2020
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Started in journalism: stripped down minimal sentences. Worked as ambulance driver in wwi: wounded at 19 years old. Theme: war in his writing, emotional inarticulously of men: writing without feeling the emotions. Won pullet surprise for fiction, nobel prize for literature. He wouldn"t tell every part of the narrative, just give you a minimal of it in writing it. Famous for saying that you should write drunk and edit sober. Recommend that you write for 2 people, yourself and someone that you love. He wrote to be happy, where he found his happiness. Writer blocks: would give himself a task of writing one truest sentences, craftsman approach. Range of writing: journalism, magazine writing, film magazine, a lot about the arts, politics, gay culture, queer culture. Writing most of it in the office, at his desk. Ritual: get up, get coffee, read and pour over websites.
