Geography of everyday life and its relation to the work of Ernest M. Hemingway

Abstract

The figure of Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize winner in literature, is widely known nationally and internationally. He was a man of a turbulent and complex life that has earned him the admiration of friends and detractors alike. He has a very descriptive literary style that transports the reader to the landscape he describes in his works. He has been an active participant in the most important historical events that occurred during the 20th century, which he has narrated with an almost cinematic description that shows the veracity of his narrative from fiction and creative recreation in his literary style. Precisely this way of narrating, of describing what is narrated, gives the geographer a knowledge of the landscapes with an integrality characteristic of the everyday approach to Geography, which allows the description of what is observed in its most humanistic conception, since Hemingway does not only describe the landscape, but also its influence on human behavior. The works written by this author provide a different vision and motivation to learn about the geographic elements characteristic of the places described in his texts. Using the general dialectical materialist method, research is developed with the objective of demonstrating the geographical contributions of the literature written by Ernest Hemingway for the development of the approach to everyday life in the teaching-learning process of Geography.