The thing about Hemingway that makes it likely we’ll still remember him a thousand years from now is how he changed the way people write. It was a profound change from Jamesian run-on, decorous writing. Faulkner didn’t have that impact, and Fitzgerald only had it a little bit. I also think he owes his writing style to Gertrude Stein, who taught him a lot when he was in Paris.
“he changed the way people write.”
Can you give more detail? I’m not a literary person.
‘Faulkner didn’t have that impact, and Fitzgerald only had it a little bit.’
Faulkner and Hemingway couldn’t possibly have been more distinct from each other; nothing about them, from writing style through to lifestyle, was remotely similar...
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