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Jessica Kesler on 09 Feb 10The start of the lit crticism
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The presenter of the 1954 Nobel Prize in literature said: "With masterly skill [Hemingway] reproduces all the nuances of the spoken word, as well as those pauses in which thought stands still and the nervous mechanism is thrown out of gear. It may sometimes sound like small talk, but it is not trivial when one gets to know his method. He prefers to leave the work of psychological reflection to his readers and this freedom is of great benefit to him in spontaneous observation."
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Hemingway has been a powerful mentor, in terms of what it means to create a landscape impressionistically on the page, to make it come alive, pulse, breathe, to 'make the country so that you could walk into it.'
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Although recognized primarily as a stylist and innovator of form, Hemingway also embraced a distinctly modern, existentialist worldview that influenced twentieth-century literature.
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romantic alienation that [Hemingway himself] seemed to be emblematic of and that he manifested in his style as well."
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Critics have also remarked upon the psychological effects of violence depicted in Hemingway's novels and short fiction