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To: Hemingway's Ghost

"Two main sorts of people tend to hate Hemingway: (1) women, and (2) artsy-fartsy limp-wristed types who need to destroy the Hemingway myth in order to promote their own introspective, verbose garbage."

LOL. Some of those who knew him best suspected Hemingway was an "artsy-fartsy limp-wristed type" who just went out of his way (perhaps too far) to hide it. (Cf Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Max Eastman, McAlmon his first publisher -- for starters.)

But you forgot another group who hated Hemingway: those who knew him.

Including all of his editors and publishers (Eastman, McAlmon), and his erstwhile "friends," and those who felt he lifted his style and even some of his material from them (Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson)...

For the record I don't hate Hemingway at all. In fact, I even helped to write and produce an international mini-series on him. I just know about him.


75 posted on 01/09/2007 7:52:31 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill
Including all of his editors and publishers (Eastman, McAlmon), and his erstwhile "friends," and those who felt he lifted his style and even some of his material from them (Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson)...

I see you can re-heat Wikipedia with the best of them:

Gertrude Stein criticized him in her book The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, suggesting that he had derived his prose style from her own and from Sherwood Anderson's.

Max Eastman? Sour grapes.

Robert McAlmon? Pissed off because he only got Three Stories and Ten Poems , and not any other.

Zelda Fitzgerald? Give me a break---her own husband knew she was a drunk and a mental patient (see Nicole Diver, et al).

Scott Fitzgerald? It's too bad their friendship ended like it did.

76 posted on 01/09/2007 8:17:28 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Sam Hill
Including all of his editors and publishers (Eastman, McAlmon),

His editors for nearly all of his writing career were Maxwell Perkins and (I think) Charles Scribner, Jr., who were the polar opposite of hating him.

105 posted on 01/09/2007 11:16:30 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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