首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
"A writer’s job is to tell the truth," said Hemingway in 1942. No other writer of our time had so fiercely asserted, so pugnacio
"A writer’s job is to tell the truth," said Hemingway in 1942. No other writer of our time had so fiercely asserted, so pugnacio
admin
2011-03-10
55
问题
"A writer’s job is to tell the truth," said Hemingway in 1942. No other writer of our time had so fiercely asserted, so pugnaciously defended or so consistently exemplified the writer’s obligation to speak truly His standard of truth-telling remained, moreover, so high and so rigorous that he was ordinarily unwilling to admit secondary evidence, whether literary evidence or evidence picked up from other sources than his own experience. "I only know what I have seen," was a statement which came often to his lips and pen. What he had personally done, or what he knew unforgettably by having gone through one version of it, was what he was interested in telling about. This is not to say that he refused to invent freely. But he always made it a sacrosanct point to invent in terms of what he actually knew from having been there.
The primary intent of his writing, from first to last, was to seize and project for the reader what he often called "the way it .was." This is a characteristically simple phrase for a concept of extraordinary complexity, and Hemingway’s conception of its meaning subtly changed several times in the course of his career--always in the direction of greater complexity. At the core of the concept, however, one can invariably discern the operation of three aesthetic instruments; the sense of place the sense of fact and the sense of scene.
The first of these, obviously a strong passion with Hemingway is the sense of place. "Unless you have geography, background," he once told George Anteil, "You have nothing." You have, that is to say, a dramatic vacuum. Few writers have been more place-conscious. Few have s carefully charted out she geographical ground work of their novels while managing to keep background so conspicuously unobtrusive. Few, accordingly, have been able to record more economically and graphically the way it is when you walk through the streets of Paris in search of breakfast at corner café… Or when, at around six o’ clock of a Spanish dawn, you watch the bulls running from the corrals at the Puerta Rochapea through the streets of Pamplona towards the bullring.
"When I woke it was the sound of the rocket exploding that announced the release of the bulls from the corrals at the edge of town. Down below the narrow street was empty. All the balconies were crowded with people. Suddenly a crowd came down the street. They were all running, packed close together. They passed along and up street toward the bullring and behind them came more men running faster, and then some stragglers who ere really running. Behind them was a little bare space, and then the bulls, galloping, tossing their heads up and down. It all went out of sight around the corner. One man fell, rolled to the gutter, and lay quiet. But the bulls went right on and did not notice him. They were all running together."
This landscape is as morning-fresh as a design in India ink on clean white paper. First is the bare white street, seem from above, quiet and empty. Then one sees the first packed clot of runners. Behind these are the thinner ranks of those who move faster because they are closer to bulls. Then the almost comic stragglers, who are "really running." Brilliantly behind these shines the "little bare space," a desperate margin for error. Then the clot of running bulls-closing the design, except of course for the man in the gutter making himself, like the designer’s initials, as inconspicuous as possible.
According to the author, Hemingway’s primary purpose in telling a story was ______.
选项
A、to construct a well-told story that the reader would thoroughly enjoy.
B、To construct a story that would reflect truths that were not particular to a specific historical period
C、To begin from reality but to allow his imagination to roam from "the way it was" to "the way it might have been"
D、To report faithfully reality as Hemingway had experienced it.
答案
D
解析
作者引用海明威的原句开头,作家的工作就是呈现事实。第二段的第一句说海明成写作的首要任务就是忠实于事实。通读全文,文中还有很多这样的字眼。由此可知,D是正确的。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/CXYO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
ThatLouisNevelsonisbelievedbymanycriticstobethegreatesttwentieth-centurysculptorisallthemoreremarkablebecause
Australiaistheworld’s______continent.
ThewriterofChildeHarold’sPilgrimageis______.
WhichofthefollowinglanguagesbelongstothesamelanguagefamilyasEnglish?
DonE.CrabtreewasamastercraftsmanandadeanofAmericanflintknappers.Crabtree’sresearchisimportantbecauseitpioneer
ThebiggestproblemfacingChileasitpromotesitselfasatouristdestinationtobereckonedwith,isthatitisattheendof
Accordingtoreportsinmajornewsoutlets,astudypublishedlastweekincludedastartlingdiscovery:thenation’sJewishpopu
AFrenchman,thepsychologistAlfredBinet,publishedthefirststandardizedtestofhumanintelligencein1905.ButitwasanA
Thefirstmajornewdevelopmentinlinguisticsuntilthe13thcenturywas______grammar.
(1)我的朋友懒洋洋地从椅子里站了起来,双手插在裤兜里,从我的背后望出去。(2)这是一个晴朗、清澈的二月的早晨。(3)地上还铺着昨天下的一层很厚的雪,在冬日的阳光下熠熠发光。(4)马路中心的雪被来往车辆辗成一条灰色带状的轮迹,但是两旁人行道上堆得高高的雪却
随机试题
总供给与总需求的平衡是指供求双方处于()
尖牙萌出见于儿童颌骨和牙弓主要生长发育期是
关于《民事诉讼法》规定的特别程序的表述,下列哪一选项是正确的?()(司考.2012.3.44)
三级资质甲房地产开发公司于2010年12月设立。2013年1月,甲房地产开发公司决定开发一普通商品住房项目小区,项目总投资6000万元,并以出让方式取得了该土地使用权。甲房地产开发公司在该小区开发过程中,以在建工程抵押贷款筹措建设资金。2013年7月1日,
某市国有企业四维机械制造厂系增值税一般纳税人,主要生产甲产品,其流转税以1个月为一个纳税期,所得税按每季度实现的会计利润预缴。主管税务机关于2007年4月12日对该企业2007年第一季度流转税及所得税纳税情况审查。1.有关会计核算资料(1)1月2013
窝藏、包庇罪:犯罪人明知他人犯罪,而为其提供隐藏处所、财物,帮助其逃匿或者作假证明包庇的行为。以下属于窝藏、包庇罪的是()
2011年2月25日,在十一届全国人大常委会第十九次会议经表决通过的刑法修正案中,下列行为中首次被列入犯罪行为的是()。
Cancerisataleoftwosetsofgeneticcode,yourownandyourtumor’s—andtracingtheuniqueareasofdamagemakesforawayt
当关系模式R(A,B)已属于3NF,下列说法中______是正确的。
A、Adirectorofasalesdepartment.B、Amanageratacomputerstore.C、Asalesclerkatashoppingcenter.D、Anaccountantofa
最新回复
(
0
)