Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway is one of my favourite writers. Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fictio. His life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works as well as additional works published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
 I like this author because I studied him last year and I read one of his more important works: "The Old Man and the Sea" written in 1952. Later, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The work has two central themes. On the one hand, it is inspired by a true story occurred in 1935: an old man who fight against a big fish and sharks; On the other hand, the story is full of symbolism and epic sense: it represents the fight of the man with the life and nature which he faces with his weapons: the expertise and the technical. The secondary themes are: the danger, the friendship, the hope, the bravery, the loneliness, the humility and the human dignity. Moreover, the work transmites to the reader a lot of values. Desafortunately, he committed suicide in 1961 due to depression and healthy problems.
Finally, the writer also frequented the famous Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. Some Hemingway's quotes that I like are: “It's good to have an end to journey to; but in the end it's the journey that matters.”; “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”; and “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools.”