/lit/ - Literature

If I could read only one novel by him, which one would it be?

>>20005804
>if you have to sit there and
>rewrite it again and again,
>don't do it.

This is literally the worst advice of all time. Writing IS rewriting.

>Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. There is, and you can’t get out of it. I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. You’ve got to work it over. The first draft of anything is shit. When you first start to write you get all the kick and the reader gets none, but after you learn to work it’s your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself.

>>19995546
>I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Another passage I love. This from A Farewell to Arms. Much of the novels of the early 20th century, especially the european ones (and Hemingway was greatly changed and influenced by his time in Paris and the time he spent with Europeans, like Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and others) took a ton from Flaubert. One of the hallmarks of Flaubert's beautiful style was his careful use of details and aesthetic lists. The listing of the abstract words in the Farewell passage reminds me of that.

I would love to speculate more if others would contribute or post Hemingway passages that they like. He is not my favorite author but a favorite, and I have read a lot of him. If you want to write, I sincerely believe a lot can be learned from him.

>This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to avoid a straight statement, which is very different from breaking so-called rules of syntax or grammar to make an effect which can be obtained in no other way, the writer takes a longer time to be known as a fake and other writers who are afflicted by the same necessity will praise him in their own defense. True mysticism should not be confused with incompetence in writing which seeks to mystify where there is no mystery but is really only the necessity to fake to cover lack of knowledge or the inability to state clearly. Mysticism implies a mystery and there are many mysteries; but incompetence is not one of them; nor is overwritten journalism made literature by the injection of a false epic qulaity. Remember this too: all bad writers are in love with the epic.

Damn. Hemingway BTFO all the purple prose writers

Has any other author captured the essence of American tipping culture as accurately as Hemingway?

>tries to wrestle a critic after misreading a mildly critical review and taking it as a personal insult

The Quentin Tarantino of literature

>>19148883
>All of these Cohn’s falling for a Brett
Men never learn do they.

>plain prose
>forgettable plots
Why is he famous?

was he a leftist?

I'm watching the Ken Burns documentary right now and is she implying Ernest Hemingway got pegged by his wife?

>He called her Pete and she called him Catherine. They liked to switch places in the bedroom.

uh wtf?

>>17325813

What's your favorite short story from him?
Mine is either Now I Lay Me or Ten Indians

Thoughts?

>>16351159
>USA
>Hemingway, probably (but there are many other viable answers)
>No not really. Nabokov got him right. He’s dull.