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6442359 No.6442359 [Reply] [Original]

I often people here claiming that Hemingway is too simplistic, that he can't write anything but short fiction. Is this just posturing, or what? Personally, I found The Sun Also Rises thematically richer, more socially applicable and more enjoyable than The Great Gatsby (the book I most often see it compared to).

Is his prose too sparse for you maximalist fans?

>> No.6442368

His prose is simple. His ideas, themes, emotions, ideas, etc. are not.

I wouldn't say /lit/ is comprised of "maximalist fans", just that there are a lot of kids on the site who are anxious to prove their intellect. It can be overwhelming at times to separate the wheat from the chaff. Just because of the sheer number of the chaff.

>> No.6442369

I liked The Sun Also Rises. It was a real wakeup call when I realized that I was just like Robert Cohn.

>> No.6442379

>>6442369
Personally, I think Cohn is supposed to be the most relatable character of the bunch.

>> No.6442385

>>6442359

>Is this just posturing, or what?

A critique isn't necessarily posturing.

But if it came from this board then it's a 99% chance that it was.

>> No.6442397
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6442397

>>6442379
>tfw you're a steer
>just a damn steer, following Brett around

>> No.6442403

>>6442385
ha

>> No.6442410

I preferred The Old Man and the Sea. You can dive deep into just about any of Hemingway's work, I just preferred this one in particular because of the readability.

“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.”

>> No.6442421

>>6442410

I like Hemingway quite a bit but Faulkner was so, so, so much better than him that the comparison is kind of silly.

>> No.6442426

I used to think that as well, that his writing is gimmicky and simplistic. If you really take your time with his works, I think you'll see that he's actually just economical. I find that I like him much more than, say, Virginia Woolfe, because he's actually far more skilled in expressing himself than she. He can express emotion instead of writing it out, and I believe that is the best way to go about art.

>> No.6442431

>>6442421
When Dylan Thomas did an American tour, one journalist asked him who the best living poet was. Thomas responded, "Is it a contest?"

This board would improve drastically if its users stopped thinking of literature as a race.

>> No.6442437

>>6442426
>he's actually far more skilled in expressing himself than she

>> No.6442440

>>6442431
But Faulkner is better.

>> No.6442442

>>6442437
You disagree or you're just pointing the shitty grammar?

>> No.6442648

>>6442440
They're very different writers with very different goals.

>> No.6442656

Hemingway is good, and prose is overrated.

>> No.6442688

Hemingway was a cuckold

>> No.6442701

>>6442688
So was everybody in the jazz age
He also dressed up in women's clothing

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6442748

Hemingway is the Cezanne of literature. And that's okay...

>> No.6444353

>>6442397
we're all beta orbiters, anon.