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None of which alters my enjoyment of his writing.
Ernest Hemingway was a LOYAL New Dealer and passionate FDR supporter, who totally rejected his upbringing in a prosperous family in suburban Oak Park, Illinois, of which he supposedly said was a place of “broad lawns and narrow minds.” Rebelling early on against his conservative, Christian upbringing, young Ernest became a libertine and very much a participant of the 1920’s, including a more than passing flirtation with the “Red measles” of the time.
Of course he welcomed Castro.
Michael Savage idolizes Hemingway. Perhaps he needs to rethink his position.
Blew his own brains out, too, didn’t he? I wonder if his final image was of some of these shattered skulls?
“Death to the adjective.”
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I couldn’t see the magic in Hemingway’s writing, his reputation as a writer has always mystified me.
How did Hugh Romney get in this article? And why was his pseudonym hyphenated?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/31/the-spanish-prisoner
I never “got” Hemingways works. I was forced to read him in high school lit. I’m a voracious reader (worn out 2 kindles, on my third) and It just never connected. I could usually get somehing out of a particular writer even if I didn’t like them. Maybe a plot twist, or a turn of phrase. Hemingway- Bupkis.
CC
I never knew that about Hemmingway. I knew he was very, very left-wing, but I never knew he actually worked for the KGB. Yikes!
As for his writing...I like Hemmingway okay. He’s middle of the pack in the field of the “classic” writers I’ve read. I’d take him over Joseph Conrad (just never could get into that guy’s writing), but he’s got nothing on Steinbeck (for my tastes, anyway).
I took out a library book a few years ago of Hemingway’s short stories. They were an enjoyable read. Seems like I don’t read books as much these days. Might be reading too many news related articles on the internet plus those dang posted weblinks on FR too— (’. So much material, so little time.
Well Nanners Peloosly and Hellary Clintoons books both make great bonfire starters.
Hemingways can still stay on the bookcase shelf.
No wonder the modern Left, and their stooges in the education establishment, love him so much.
I teach American Lit. WE proceed chronologically, and when we get to Hemingway, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald... Ugh
“Old Man and the Sea”. Ok. There is no way to make that week long read make sense to reasonable people.
So baseless of any true morality. There’s just no lesson there. No theme, no epiphany.
The plot is silly.
“Hills Like White Elephants” was interesting to go through as a student, in discovering symbolism. It’s about a guy who dumps his girlfriend over an abortion.
And then Hemingway killed himself. With a shotgun inside the house. That is a mess for the family to have to come and clean up. Aggressive, if you ask me. It’s not as if that wasn’t in his writing.
And then we move on to Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty and we’re back on track
Vacuous.
Years ago I started one of his novels, forget which one, it was so tedious and boring I closed it up, never to pick up one of his works again.
However, I LOVED all the movies based on his novels, among them...."The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (Gregory Peck), "The Killers" (Burt Reynolds), "To Have and Have Not" (ah, Bogie and Bacall)....
His movies were hits, no matter how boring the novel, because the locales in Hemingway's tales were always set in exotic places like Africa, Spain, Italy, Cuba, the old Florida Keys......and the time frames were always riveting....the Spanish Civil War, World War I, the running of the bulls in Pamplona....the torero and el toro in the bull ring....so many of his story-lines were JUST MADE for dramatic action and steamy romance movies.
He stated once that when he left Oak Park he would never return...,and he didn't except for a brief visit for a funeral. Hard to understand because it was a stimulating place to grow up, a tree-lined suburb right out of an old Judy Garland-Micky Rooney "Andy Hardy" film. The quiet village itself was filled with academia types, professors, teachers, writers, artists and architects (Frank Lloyd Wright amongst them)...and emphasis on learning and succeeding in life was always in the air.
Hemingway's birth/boyhood home in Oak Park has been restored...and guided tours are available. It's a jewel to visit...especially for those interested in literature and the architecture and furnishing of old homes. Hemingway's home, inside and outside, is a beautiful window into Victorian life in Chicago-land during the early 1900's.
Leni
sure would have liked to have gone fishing with the man.
Probably would have drank rum with him too.