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>personally witnessed the horrors of war
>didn't have an overly pedantic writing style
>could drink like a fish
>killed stuff for fun

was Hemingway the working man's literary man?

>> No.12218130

>>12218122
No, he was a fruitcake who traipsed around europe and hung out with modernists. He did those things in order to butch up in the eyes of people like you.

>> No.12218134

>>12218130
he was a modernist retard

>> No.12218135

>>12218122
He started out as a journalist, and he had a pretty good output, so yeah, maybe

>> No.12218139

>>12218130
Hemingway was more of a chad than you will ever be capable of comprehending. Now return to your James Joyce fart sniffing thread

>> No.12218156

>>12218134
Doesn’t invalidate anything I said. I wa talking about his personality, not artistic style, retard.

>> No.12218161

>>12218139
No he wasn’t and I don’t particularly care for Joyce.

>> No.12218165

>>12218122
Lol. Hemingway is probably the best candidate among famous writers for the distinction of “latent transsexual”. He really was a fruitcake. One of the most transparently insecure un-masculine people of all time; I seriously don’t know either fans or critics still write under the illusion that he is an authentic “manly man”... even his novels are open about the fact he’s a posing ponce. I think I remember reading that he dressed up in girls clothes as a boy of his own volition. Plus there’s that episode where he takes Fitzgerald into the bathroom and looks at his penis. And don’t get me started on his war memoirs... that whole thing about him summarily executing an SS POW? Really? It’s fanfiction. He was a journalist. If he were alive today he’d probably be writing for the Atlantic about how he lived with a group of Afghanistani boys who dress up in feminine clothes for a week and learned how to perform erotic dances for anti-Taliban generals “and that’s a good thing”.

>> No.12218169

>>12218122
Ernest “I could write like Tolstoy if I wanted to, I just don’t want to” Hemingway. Lmao at his 90 IQ fans.

>> No.12218175

>>12218161
then why should we care about any of your opinions you turbopleb

>> No.12218187

>>12218122
Hemingway is a good writer

He was a little full of himself

If he was a repressed transgender, he did the right thing in burying it and trying to embody a masculine archetype

I like his writin, he’s more of a stylist than a profound thinker, but I like how he praised masculine stoicism in the face of hardship

Also there are a bunch of cool stories about him half of which are probably fake but still entertaining

>> No.12218206

>>12218165

o.t.i.e.

>> No.12218233

>>12218187
>If he was a repressed transgender, he did the right thing in burying it and trying to embody a masculine archetype
If he truly was a repressed transgender then he did the wrong thing. he just ended up blowing his fucking brains out. May as well have tried to be who he wanted to be.

>but I like how he praised masculine stoicism in the face of hardship
You wanna know how I know your balding and have a beard?

>> No.12218242

>>12218233
>You wanna know how I know your balding and have a beard?
delete please :/

>> No.12218244

>>12218134
all jokes aside, is this even refutable? I often find myself stuck in a pit of this sort of nihilism

>> No.12218249

>>12218187
>If he was a repressed transgender
lol what? where does this come from?

>> No.12218282

>>12218122
>killed stuff for fun
Including himself amirite

>> No.12218283

>>12218233
He probably committed suicide because of chronic pain and writer’s block. Also being ugly doesn’t really refute any of my opinions.

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>>12218165
>If he were alive today he’d probably be writing for the Atlantic about how he lived with a group of Afghanistani boys who dress up in feminine clothes for a week and learned how to perform erotic dances for anti-Taliban generals “and that’s a good thing”.

>> No.12219208

>>12218737
KEK

>> No.12219250

>>12218165
This poster was raped by Ernest as a child and is permanently emasculated

>> No.12219255

>>12218249
his mom raised him as a girl, LEt his hair grow long and wore womans clothing as a kid

>> No.12219268

>>12218165
this post was written by Pynchon

>> No.12219367

>American soldiers in WW1

Oh wow it's fucking nothing, try Jünger who got shot multiple times and went back to the front again and again.

>> No.12219372

>>12219367
he wasn’t a soldier you pleb

>> No.12219382

>>12219255
Maybe that's because he's born in 19th century? It was normal back then.