Posted on 04/10/2021 10:41:58 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
I pulled off a large chunk of Hemingway’s persona during a chance visit to the Zane Gray museum in Roebling, Pennsylvania. I’ll grant you that it’s not as if Zane Gray were the first American writer to cultivate the larger-than-life personality. Twain, a huge influence on Hemingway, developed one to a T on his late-in-life speaking tours dressed in all white gabardine. But Zane Gray, a generation before Hemingway, had already ‘done’ Hemingway. He had the upper middle-class background, same as Hemingway: son of a dentist; Hemingway, son of a doctor. He had the wealthy first wife who supported him and had the family who bailed him out. He had the mistresses. He had the blustery bravado. He hunted for big game and fished for marlin in many of the places Hemingway later did. He won fishing trophies and rubbed elbows with Hollywood stars. Yes, it’s true that Gray wasn’t the craftsman that Hemingway was. However, what an eye-opening museum visit that was.
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Interesting, given PBS just aired a three part doc on Hemingway.
I did my master’s thesis on The Sun Also Rises. Very interesting fellow, and I did days on days worth of research about him. Wrote novels about the women that spurned him, ignored the women that adored him.
I’m not an expert on Hemingway but a phrase from the article linked to might explain his famousness:
“his addictive personality”
It’s an interesting article.
And that is why I have everything Poe ever wrote and have read it all several times and was bored stiff by Hemingway.
If you liked him, great.
From one of his novels (can't remember which):
Woman: "You're my dream man!"
Man: "I'm your bad dream man."
Hemingway wrote in a journalistic style, choppy and terse like the bygone byline days of limited space per edition.
His novels read like news reports.
Hemingway , Ken Burns, George Plimpton.
All supporters of mass murder communists.
Note the background of the set on any PBS news show where you will see books about Cuba as an example.
PBS Docuseries on Hemingway Covers-Up His Communist Connections
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3949406/posts
I still like “Riders of the purple sage.”
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