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Posted on 03/14/2019 7:43:53 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
But it could be argued that Hemingway should have either chosen his battles more wisely or stayed out of some altogether. During the Spanish Civil War he fought on the side of the Communists. I want to be clear as a tolling bell here. I am NOT saying he should have been fighting on the side of the Fascists. He shouldn’t have been there at all. The Spanish Civil War was not a war of good against evil; it was a war of two evils, between two man-centered ideologies, two modern scourges that continue to reverberate and manifest themselves long after both towers have fallen. It’s well known that Hemingway flirted with the KGB, fished with Castro and Che, witnessed Che’s firing squads, fought on the side of the Stalinists during the Spanish Civil War, and probably propagandized for them, too, while practicing his journalism there. He allegedly sullied John Dos Passos’s reputation because Dos Passos became disillusioned with the Republican Stalinists. Maybe he would have tried to do the same to George Orwell if Orwell hadn’t become so famous for telling the truth. In other words, Hemingway was one of the forerunners of Vladimir Lenin’s famous “useful idiots” club.
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Hemingway didn’t go to Spain to fight for right or wrong.
He went to Spain to gather material for “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”
The Spanish Civil War just happened to be the only one available at the time.
Churchill in his six volume “History of WWII” spoke about the Spanish Civil war. He did say there were atrocities on both sides but he also said he would have been on Franco’s side if forced to choose.
When Zelda Fitzgerald first met Hemmingway she told F. Scott that he was a phony. Hemmingway told Fitzgerald that Zelda was insane.
Interesting and thoughtful article.
For later
Zelda Fitzgerald hung out with Hemingway; she said he was a total phony.
Well said.
Hemingway was not a decent person.
They were both right.
He was terrified later that the FBI was following and persecuting him, but they had good reason.
It's not known whether he actually passed anything of value on to the Soviets.
I think she was insane the same way Robin Williams or John Nash were insane. Just because she was mentally unstable doesn't mean she highly intelligent, creative, and insightful.
Arthur C. Clarke had a bad reputation among famous scientists because he used them to get story ideas and insight into the latest scientific concepts and breakthroughs, and then didn't credit them in his books.
F. Scott Fitzgerald used Zelda the same way. He plagiarized material from her diary and elsewhere, she publicly accused him of doing so on more than one occasion, and there's hard evidence to back up that accusation.
Fitzgerald used her wild mind as a source of creativity when he couldn't find any within himself. He used her as a portal into another world of ideas and nightmares, brought back what he found there and built art around it.
“Darned cats....”
Have visited his house in Key West and took the guided tour, between that and what I have heard and read, he could be a heavy drinker and bit of a butthead. Do you know the story about his wife at the time building a swimming pool at the Key West home while he was away?
Hemingway was a grandstanding narcissist. And his writing sucks.
CC
The fishing parts of “Big Two-Hearted River” are my favorites of his. I liked “The Sun Also Rises” pretty much too, but I read it 40 years ago when I had more testosterone.
Mister Smagacz gives us a nicely researched perspective on from whom the styles arose.
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The little I know about E. Hemmingway, is that he had an intense need for excitement and stimulation. If nothing of note was happening, he might create some sort of drama.
He was a seeker of adventure and high risk.
I think if E. Hemmingway were alive today as a 20 year old man, he would have considered joining ISIS. ISIS was the most reviled, feared and hated group of Terrorist Warriors since the Nazi’s in WW2. All such Mid-East groups are known to be horrible, but ISIS clearly described and boasted of what they did to people. It was the way they advertised their presence.
Ernest would have been fascinated with such boldness, such
ambition, uncompromising in it’s cruelty.
I think if he had lived long enough, Ernest H. would have settled into writing horror novels similar to Steven King.
A Horror novel by Hemmingway would have the sufficient to appeal to directors like Quinten Tarrantino.
Regards,
Yeah, I don’t know how that got left out. Thanks.
On his many journeys up there, Hemingway would stop into the garage and sit on the porch with the grandfather and they would talk about cars and trout fishing and other stuff......
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