First time I read it. It’s been a long time since I have read Hemingway in English.
It’s a little bit different to how things are written today.
Same goes with German authors – same language but sounds … strange.
Hard to explain.
The language from decades ago.
Hemingway used language in his own way. He may have reflected his era in some ways, but his language was unique. Simple, short sentences were at the heart of his style. Fifty years ago this was considered a marvel of communication. Ten years ago he was criticized for being too simplistic. He is also criticized for being a sexist. But then he lived in a sexist era. I’ve like his writing, but then perhaps I’m a bit simple myself.
Yesterday I read an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin in The Paris Review. She mentioned that … “the ostentatiously clear, flat style of someone like Hemingway” … might have been admired by male writers “as quintessentially masculine”.
Hmm. I admire the what I would call dry style as well.
I am going to read more. I totally forgot how I received his language when reading some of his short stories at high school. Simply can’t remember. Duh.
Perhaps literary criticism has rejected Hemingway and his writing because of his sexism. Many prominent critics are women who don’t put up with sexism lightly. Was he a sexist? Most likely he was, but this doesn’t necessarily make him a bad writer. I admit it has been a long time since I read his books. Perhaps I need to go back and see if I like them as much as when I first read them. Not sure that I remember much from my high school years. That was a looong time ago.
I didn’t saw any sexism in “A Moveable Feast” at least. There _are_ women protagonists and he clearly saw them not as a “species of less intelligence” as some critics put it. Okay, these were real world people ;-)
However, I ordered a biography on Friday. Since in the end I don’t know that much about his life, his personality. Only the facts everyone knows: Hunting, fishing, alcohol, marriages, suicide.
Text book likely contained short excerpts from Hemingway, and probably not his best writing. You still have your H.S. text books? Wow.
No, it was a compilation of short stories – there is a link in my comment above – I found it in the Internet – not at my house ;-).
The story is very cruel.
Looks like you were having fun here also. Been a long time since I read A Moveable Feast.
First time I read it. It’s been a long time since I have read Hemingway in English.
It’s a little bit different to how things are written today.
Same goes with German authors – same language but sounds … strange.
Hard to explain.
The language from decades ago.
Hemingway used language in his own way. He may have reflected his era in some ways, but his language was unique. Simple, short sentences were at the heart of his style. Fifty years ago this was considered a marvel of communication. Ten years ago he was criticized for being too simplistic. He is also criticized for being a sexist. But then he lived in a sexist era. I’ve like his writing, but then perhaps I’m a bit simple myself.
Yesterday I read an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin in The Paris Review. She mentioned that … “the ostentatiously clear, flat style of someone like Hemingway” … might have been admired by male writers “as quintessentially masculine”.
Hmm. I admire the what I would call dry style as well.
I am going to read more. I totally forgot how I received his language when reading some of his short stories at high school. Simply can’t remember. Duh.
Perhaps literary criticism has rejected Hemingway and his writing because of his sexism. Many prominent critics are women who don’t put up with sexism lightly. Was he a sexist? Most likely he was, but this doesn’t necessarily make him a bad writer. I admit it has been a long time since I read his books. Perhaps I need to go back and see if I like them as much as when I first read them. Not sure that I remember much from my high school years. That was a looong time ago.
I didn’t saw any sexism in “A Moveable Feast” at least. There _are_ women protagonists and he clearly saw them not as a “species of less intelligence” as some critics put it. Okay, these were real world people ;-)
However, I ordered a biography on Friday. Since in the end I don’t know that much about his life, his personality. Only the facts everyone knows: Hunting, fishing, alcohol, marriages, suicide.
Ha, I found the textbook we read at high school:
http://books.google.de/books?id=wnfgcMgs4z4C&lpg=PA1&hl=de&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
Text book likely contained short excerpts from Hemingway, and probably not his best writing. You still have your H.S. text books? Wow.
No, it was a compilation of short stories – there is a link in my comment above – I found it in the Internet – not at my house ;-).
The story is very cruel.