How much was Papa drinking per day by the 40s?
Now we know, from which came the phrase ‘’Argo f—k yerself’’.
I recall in a book about Zelda Fitzgerald, when she first met Hemingway, she told F. Scott that Hemingway was a phony.
Hemingway told his old friend, Fitzgerald that Zelda was insane.
Hemingway appears to have been spiritually bereft. An attraction to militant atheism combined with a suicide is usually a sign of inner emptiness.
He could have been a double agent too. My guess is he could barely stay somber to write his pulp novels.
I always thought he was a fraud.
So, I guess his eating the shotgun was a good thing?
The author, John Dugdale, seems to be trying out for Master of the Non-Sequetor status. His end line is both a pander to Islam and a denial of the entire history of Islam.
“The virulent hatred of Arabs of Martha Gellhorn - Hemingway’s third wife, who covered the civil war with him - has been exposed.”
DUH ! ! !
Silly presstitute - To know Islam is to loath Islam.
I KNEW you were a spy! :p
I’m not entirely surprised. Hemingway’s novels got worse and worse, and I never liked his style. “Across the River and Into the Trees” has to be high in the competition for Worst Novel Ever Written.
A good friend of mine wrote well-respected books on Hemingway and Faulkner and taught them both in college.
I once asked her how she could stand teaching Hemingway, year after year, and she privately admittted to me that it was pretty painful.
What a jerk he was. No real surprise that he wanted to be a KGB spy. And no real surprise that he failed even at that.
The Old Man and the C-I-A.
When I was in Havana, I visited La Floridita bar, one of Hemmingway’s favorite watering holes. It was most interesting. It was very enjoyable.
I expected Hemmingway to come through the door any minute.
The drinks were excellent.
Also, Hemmingway didn’t win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for crapy writing.
I think Hemmingway’s earliest writing, especially some of his short stories are absolutely his best.
It seems to me that as time passed he became obsessed with over-perfecting his austere style, and by the time he came to “Old Man And The Sea” he was barely readable.
Try reading “A Clean, Well Lighted Place.”
P.S.
And yes, he did have awful mental issues.
Poor man.
P.S. again…
I forgot. He also received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for “The Old Man and the Sea.”
Good to see the literary aesthetes out today. Ah yes, Hemingway overrated. Granted, he’s no Jerry Jenkins, but...
I find it interesting how many CIA people AND communists wrote American novels...each trying to influence the masses ideologically through fiction. Still going on today.