The Iceberg Theory is a term used to describe the writing style of American writer Ernest Hemingway. The theory is this: The meaning of a piece is not immediately evident, because the crux of the story lies below the surface, just as most of the mass of a real iceberg similarly lies beneath the surface. For example, The Old Man and the Sea is a meditation upon youth and age, even though the protagonist spends little or no time thinking on those terms。
“冰山理論”是一個用來形容美國作家歐內(nèi)斯特•海明威的寫作風(fēng)格的術(shù)語。具體是指:一篇作品的的意義不是顯而易見的,因?yàn)楣适碌囊x往往隱藏在表面之下。比如,《老人與!肥鞘顷P(guān)于對年齡的思考,但作品中的主要人物并沒有在這個問題上花費(fèi)什么時間。
In Death in the AfternoonIf, Hemingway wrote: a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water。
在《午后之死》中,海明威寫道:如果一個作家真正知道自己在寫什么的話,即使他省略掉這些東西,讀者還是能夠理解他想要表達(dá)的內(nèi)容。冰山運(yùn)動之雄偉壯觀,是因?yàn)樗挥邪朔种辉谒嫔稀?br />