/lit/ - Literature

>>23504799

Faulkner is a better writer but he never wrote a novel as excellent as Moby-Dick

>>21458010
>*would never write TSATF.
No. He would not be able to, because his prose is inferior to Faulkner's. It's as simple as that.

>>21443838
In the letter, Faulkner calls him "Brother H"
>Faulkner clarified that he did not question Hemingway’s courage as a man—only as an artist. He told “Brother H” that it was “one of those trivial things you throw off just talking, a nebulous idea of no value anyway, that you test by saying it.” In his responses, Hemingway apologized for his reaction and indicated that he would be open to more of Faulkner’s constructive criticism. Although his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) would “probably bore the shit out of [Faulkner] to re-read,” Hemingway wanted to know what Faulkner thought of it, “as [a] brother.” He asked that they “keep on writing.”