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Ernest Hemingway fue y sigue siendo un escritor particularmente único y controvertido. Este volumen propone un modelo de lectura filosófica, sobre todo desde la perspectiva del existencialismo que dominó Europa durante el segundo cuarto del siglo XX y que fue popularizado por pensadores y escritores como Sartre o Camus. Un enfoque como éste suscita una cuestión de naturaleza temporal, porque cuando Hemingway comenzó a publicar sus obras la filosofía existencialista todavía no se conocía en Europa. La propuesta defendida en este volumen hace referencia al reconocimiento del escritor por los autores rusos (Turgenieff, Tolstoi, Dostoievski), a los que se refiere como su influencia literaria más importante y directa, y que en ocasiones aparecen como referencias indirectas en sus novelas.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg, course: 20th Century American Short Stories, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In his stylistic masterpiece, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," Ernest Hemingway confronts his readers with the omnipresent fear of nothingness. The main characters of the story show different ways of dealing with that problem, but only the older waiter is able to present a satisfying solution. By establishing a haven for all desperate people who need a dignified place to dispel their fear, the old waiter has found his meaning in life and therefore, his way to combat his fear of nothingness. According to him, life does not need to be senseless and end in despair, as long as one keeps composure and protects one's own dignity and the dignity of others.
This master's thesis discusses the philosophy of existentialism and the reflection of its main concepts in Ernest Hemingway's novels A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Although Ernest Hemingway is not formally known as a representative of existentialist philosophy or existentialist literature of the first half of the 20th century, the author's literary works addressed the questions related to the concept of human condition and the dimensions of an individual's existence that existentialism was mainly preoccupied with as well. The first part of the master's thesis addresses the main characteristics of existentialism. Existentialism is represented as a philosophical as well as a cultural movement. The concepts such as human existence, individual freedom, responsibility and authenticity as well as one's emotions and one's preoccupation with the notion of mortality are taken into consideration. What follows is the analysis of the novels A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls. The analysis presents the discussed concepts of existentialist philosophy the way they can be noted in the two Hemingway's war novels. The motifs, the themes and the ideas of the two novels that are of existentialist nature are presented. The last chapter brings about an analysis of the novels' protagonists and their own attitude towards life situations since existentialist philosophy generally focuses on dimensions of an individual's existence and on one's individual existential struggles.
Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning of its existence. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.
As a Spanish cafe closes for the night, two waiters and a lonely customer confront the concept of nothingness.
Together with the editor's thoughtful introductions, the central existential writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre included in this volume make it the most substantial anthology of existentialism available. Without shortening any of the selections offered in the first edition, the second edition adds valuable context by presenting two additional selections by philosophers who had a profound impact on the development of existentialism: Hegel and Husserl.