Posted on 04/04/2021 8:13:38 PM PDT by Veto!
A new documentary on Ernest Hemingway - powered by vast but little-known archives kept at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston - is shedding new light on the acclaimed novelist.
Hemingway, by longtime collaborators Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, is premiering on PBS on three consecutive nights starting April 5.
It takes a more nuanced look at the author and his longstanding reputation as an alcoholic, adventurer, outdoorsman and bullfight-loving misogynist who struggled with internal turmoil that eventually led to his death by suicide at age 61..........
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Does it talk about his communist leanings?
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I liked his writing. But I think he is highly over-rated as a writer.
Quite a few of them are polydactyls from what I’ve read.
I much prefer the writing of the vastly underrated Richard Harding Davis, both as a journalist/war correspondent and fiction writer, sort of an American Kipling.
Or that Zelda Fitzgerald pegged him as a homo after meeting him in Paris?
Distinctive six-toed cats, polydactyls. Generations of them. Maybe you can still buy one.
IDK. You have to see for yourself.
One of his wives knew he was bi-sexual. I don’t recall that it shows up in his writing.
I saw them when I was there 35+ years ago, I wouldn’t buy one, I’m a dogless, dog guy.
3 nights? Ken Burns? I remember his long winded ones. Tried to make us (and him) more intellectual.
The Big Two Hearted River.
What a hard read. Brilliant, but hard.
the sea was angry that day....
I tried one of Hemingway’s novels (I forgot which) but found that it bored me so I avoided him for years. Then I tried one of his short stories, liked it, and read them all. I suspect that his style is better suited to short stories.
Hemingway was a leftist and Communist sympathizer, but not a politically correct one (and so were many other writers back when he was doing most of his writing, including George Orwell). I don’t recall his politics being a problem in his short stories, though, not as annoying as when injected into contemporary fiction (not that I read contemporary fiction — there’s plenty of old stuff that I like that I still haven’t read).
Still kicking myself for not visiting his place in Cuba when I was there a few years ago.
I solve the commie writer problem by reading mysteries by women writers like Agatha Christy. But then, I am a girl. Look forward to Hemingway show...went to Key West several times and he was greatly admired there, not necessarily for his writing, but for being famous and able to hold his booze. LOL
I looked him up in Wikipedia -- sounds interesting. I see many of his books are available in ebook format from Project Gutenberg. I may give one a try.
Cars loafing all over Key West when I was there.
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