Joseph Conrad sneers at the mere idea that Hemingway is even a writer...
Posted on 04/05/2021 12:01:41 PM PDT by Borges
The idea of a Ken Burns documentary on Ernest Hemingway seems both obvious and a bit absurd. Burns’ long project of celebrating the most dad-friendly pillars of American culture and history—the Civil War, baseball, jazz—makes Hemingway (after Mark Twain, covered by Burns in 2002) almost inevitable. Hemingway’s life was full of exciting adventures, and, not incidentally, he is surely the most photographed writer of the 20th century, so there’s lots of visual material to draw from. Yet after decades of dominating ideas about how a writer should live and work, Hemingway feels increasingly irrelevant today, his influence diminished to a vanishing point, his reputation corroded by a dated personal mythos. According to the Chicago Tribune, even in Hemingway’s hometown of Oak Park, Illinois, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby alone outsells all of Hemingway’s work combined, and the Hemingway Foundation had to launch a GoFundMe campaign to keep the museum at his birthplace open.
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Just curious how many people you could have met that knew Hemingway?
Covering WWII Hemingway was already famous so it was sometimes was a drawback on what he was able to cover. Ernie Pyle was a reporter who became famous for his coverage in WWII. So sometimes Hemingway would introduce himself to the troops as Ernie Roid, the poor soldier’s Pyle.
Monty preferring attacks uh... from behind. Patton knew this dude well, as a poofter. Trusted him about as much as the French.
Dry martini is one thing, but H’s fave drink was a daiquiri— n’gay?
Bingo! Correct... and the fidelistas knew who he was supposedly “working” for— hilarious actually.
And make all of your female characters featureless skanks.
No disrespect to Howard Stern, but I think I’d get a second opinion in medical matters.
He must have been a misogynist................
“I’ve got this set to record. I think he led an interesting, colorful life.”
Cela va sans dire.
Cependant, Hemingway l’appelait une fête mobile.
Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline, kept the penny Hemingway threw on the ground when he returned from Europe after an affair with his next wife. In anger Hemingway said his wife had spent his last dollar on an extravagant pool in his absence. He said that this was his last penny.
It is reported that Pauline, who lived in the house until she died, would should the penny to guests and say that she was the only one of Hemingway’s wives that got a penny out of him.
I don’t know that he was a misogynist, but his females are so flat and interchangeable.
Fifty years ago, my husband was in a rehab facility. Several of the clients had been Hemingway’s drinking buddies. Also, we had a home on a private island in the Bahamas. Lots of the club members knew him.
That penny has its own little memorial near the pool at Hemingway’s Key West house.
As for Hemingway, my favorite story of his is "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" which is about how a cuckolded cowardly man tries to win the love of his wife back with reckless bravery.
It could be that after Joyce, Proust, Woolf and others went so far to the verbose and hard to follow side Hemingway was the guy who said hold on there. Now that that pendulum has swung back (perhaps in part thanks to Hemingway) his writing is less appreciated then it was at the time.
DITTO!
Lived the ultimate self-indulgent lifestyle. Everything was geared to self-gratification and self-glorification. When he started losing his facilities, offed himself.
I recommend Dan Simmons book about Hemmingway, The Crook Factory.
So much great English literature, so little time.
Hemingway was highly influenced by Conrad.
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