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1、Unit17TheSnowsofKilimanjaro———ErnestHemingwayErnestHemingwayErnestMillerHemingway(1899–1961),Americannovelistandshort-storywriter,awardedtheNobelPrizeforLiteraturein1954.Hewasnotedbothfortheintensemasculinityofhiswritingandforhisadventurousandwidelypublicizedlife.
2、HissuccinctandlucidprosestyleexertedapowerfulinfluenceonAmericanandBritishfictioninthe20thcentury.Hemingway'sWritingYearsThewritingofbooksoccupiedHemingwayformostofthepostwaryears.HeremainedbasedinParis,buthetraveledwidelyfortheskiing,bullfighting,fishing,andhunti
3、ngthatbythenhadbecomepartofhislifeandformedthebackgroundformuchofhiswriting.HispositionasamasterofshortfictionhadbeenadvancedbyMenWithoutWomenin1927andthoroughlyestablishedwiththestoriesinWinnerTakeNothingin1933.Amonghisfineststoriesare“TheKillers,”“TheShortHappyL
4、ifeofFrancisMacomber,”and“TheSnowsofKilimanjaro.”Atleastinthepublicview,however,thenovelAFarewelltoArms(1929)overshadowedsuchworks.“TheHemingwayCode”Hemingway’scharactersplainlyembodyhisownvaluesandviewoflife.ThemaincharactersofTheSunAlsoRises,AFarewelltoArms,andF
5、orWhomtheBellTollsareyoungmenwhosestrengthandself-confidenceneverthelesscoexistwithasensitivitythatleavesthemdeeplyscarredbytheirwartimeexperiences.WarwasforHemingwayapotentsymboloftheworld,whichheviewedascomplex,filledwithmoralambiguities,andofferingalmostunavoid
6、ablepain,hurt,anddestruction.Tosurviveinsuchaworld,andperhapsemergevictorious,onemustconductoneselfwithhonour,courage,endurance,anddignity,asetofprinciplesknownas“theHemingwaycode.”Tobehavewellinthelonely,losingbattlewithlifeistoshow“graceunderpressure”andconstitu
7、tesinitselfakindofvictory,athemeclearlyestablishedinTheOldManandtheSea.WritingStyleInstrivingtobeasobjectiveandhonestaspossible,Hemingwayhituponthedeviceofdescribingaseriesofactionsbyusingshort,simplesentencesfromwhichallcommentoremotionalrhetorichasbeeneliminated
8、.Thesesentencesarecomposedlargelyofnounsandverbs,havefewadjectivesandadverbs,andrelyonrepetitionandrhythmformuchoftheireffect.Theresultingterse,concentr
