The iceberg technique became also known as “minimalism”. Hemingway believed that, like an iceberg, which only reveals one-eighth of itself above water, a story should also only reveal the most essential information and the reader completes the story with its own phantasy.
“A writer should show only the tip of what may be a huge conflict.”
The [...]
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Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park (Illinois). He was considered as the most successfull and most popular US-author of the 20th century but he was also a reporter and a war correspondent.
The works of Hemingway are the image of his life, and the key of his life is adventure. [...]
Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens – better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain – was born on 30.11.1835 in Florida (Missouri). His father died in 1847 and that is why Mark Twain had to drop out in the age of 12 and why he trained as typesetter. Since 1852 the writer has travelled through the East and [...]
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