Your thoughts about Ernest Hemingway?
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Re: Your thoughts about Ernest Hemingway?
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Our opinion of Hemingway as a culture seems to go in waves of respect and derision and veneration. Maybe we've finally landed on uncertainty. Personally, I do think that Hemingway was pretty brilliant. I understand the idea that people don't see the depth in his writing, but my favorite parts of Hemingway were always those that were left unwritten. The ending of A Farewell to Arms, for instance, in its abruptness, can seem callous to many, but I found it to be brilliant in its deliberate truncation of the story as a way of articulating emotional pain.
Hemingway's economic style is perhaps a bit antithetical to what readers want today because it's not deliberately descriptive or verbose. He says just enough to get his point across and moves on. It's a style that, even if you're not a fan of it today, has influenced immeasurable amounts of writers to find simpler ways to say what they're trying to say. At the very least, he provides balance to the spectrum which has, at its other end, the likes of Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
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And at the end of all I was disappointed, they wouldn't suppose to be that simple in my opinion. But in the end life is that simple and I keep going to read Heminway's books.
PS: Sorry about all the grammer mistakes that I've been made. English is not my foreign language.
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