Iceberg Technique

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.”
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Ernest Hemingway

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. [...]

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