/lit/ - Literature

>>14045730
It was a different time, you wouldn't understand, kid.

>>14045730

His books are for kids just learning to read.

>>14045730
Borges did to Spanish-language literature what Hemingway did for English one. Back in their days every writer wrote in faggy flowery language and these guys came up and tried to make a difference.

>>14045730
he was a brainlet who wrote children's books but for adults

>>14045746
The Killers is anything but child-like.

>>14045730
It helps to understand that Hemingway is a literary descendent of Flaubert, who was obsessed with the the “le mot juste” which sought simplicity and precise language in writing

Because his books were about the terseness of war and life. He didn't wish to wear a mask in any capacity.

I have tried to finish the Sun Also Rises a half dozen times

>>14045824
It's such a great book. What the fuck anon.

>>14045730
>“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
Holy moly this is based as fuck my man

>>14045832
Faulkner owned him much worse anon.

>>14045843
Both won the Nobel and we're talking about them so it doesn't matter in the end.

It's harder, in a way. Most minimalism is boring, but he nails it. That's not to say good eloquence is easy either.

>>14045730
Read FWTBT and then come back and say that

>>14045826
How is it a great book?
>writing is hard
>I don't know how to express myself
>I'm drinking but I'm sad
>I'll go to Spain I guess, nothing better to do than fish
unironically made me sympathize for the idea of "toxic white male privilege"

>>14046072
If you're a brainwashed SJW I have nothing to say to you.

>>14046072
>unironically made me sympathize for the idea of "toxic white male privilege"
I actually cringed

>>14046075
if I was an sjw I wouldn't need Hemingway to help me sympathize with the idea...

>>14045730
Why is it that women can't stand him? I remember in university english class, some lady pointed out how much a certain line annoyed her, and it was the line that stood out to me as the best in the book, lol. It's like there's some essential quality to it that makes them flustered and angry.

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>>14046098
He's a man. By god he's a man. A manly man. His prose is the equivalent of a man manspreading on a train in front of a group of reeemales during rush hour. They can't handle it.

>>14045730
>honorable
Care to back that claim up?

>>14046085
WTF r u talking about. Go back to your university english class. Also books are good because they are good, an explanation is juvenile, frivolous, and misinformed, so your post was clearly bait to spew your stupid beliefs

>>14046098
I'm not angry or a woman, I don't even dislike Hemingway; the Sun Also Rises is a tepid read with a deeply unsympathetic protagonist
>>14046129
>books are good because they are good
woah, galaxy brain take anon

>>14046270
Yes books are good because they are good. There's nothing more. You should intuitively be able to comprehend a great book when you read it, similar to when you eat great food, think a painting is beautiful, or think a woman is beautiful. Language diminishes our aesthetic preferences and contorts them into dogmatic systems.

>>14046284
okay then I intuited that it was shit, what's your point?

>>14045755
it has been like a decade since I last read The Killers but I can still remember almost every nuance to it