Artistic style under iceberg theory

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Hemingway compared the creation of literary works to an iceberg floating on the sea for the first time in his work Dead in the Afternoon, "If a prose writer knows what he wants to write, he can omit what he knows. Readers, as long as the author writes truthfully, will strongly feel what he omits, as if the author has already written. The iceberg moves majestically in the sea, because only one eighth of it is above the water." This metaphor deeply reflects Hemingway's literary pursuit - concise and meaningful at the same time. The Old Man and the Sea condenses the plot of the whole novel into 40000 words. It can be said that the writer has fully embodied the "iceberg theory". The "tip of the iceberg" described in the text only accounts for one eighth, while the remaining seven eighths of the feelings are hidden underwater and need to be felt and imagined by the readers themselves.

2022-12-07

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  The formation of Hemingway's iceberg creation theory is closely related to his own experience. First of all, Hemingway's early experience as a journalist. Long term news writing training has made him form a concise and lively language style. At the same time, Hemingway also linked literary creation with news writing, and proposed the literary creation rules of "writing a good beginning", "writing while standing, and revising while sitting"; Secondly, Hemingway's learning and application of the language style of some writers also affected his future "iceberg" literary creation style, such as the short words and sentences in Mark Twain's works, Stein's simple syntax, Pound's concise and implicit brushwork, etc. Hemingway's innovative learning and application gradually formed his unique iceberg theory style; Finally, the impact of war on Hemingway's literary creation. The writer himself experienced the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, and the psychological trauma brought by the war to Hemingway was also projected in his literary creation. He used objective and concise language style to shape the tough guy image of the hero in his works, who was stoic and reticent. These existence seemed more real and meaningful in the era destroyed by the war.

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