Hi /lit/,
What is your view on the novels and short stories of Hemingway?
He was fat.
His son was a tranny.
His complete short stories, Finca Vigía Edition, is one of my favorite books.
He dances around the boundary of literature and genre fiction quite nicely. I find that it's true what people say about his writing being simple yet also compelling and full of unspoken admissions, which I like.
If there's any qualm I have, it's that his stories seem to revolve around a lot of self insertion on his part. This isn't entirely even a problem seeing as how the stories he wrote were directly based on his own experiences, but for example the romance in FWTBT felt kind of contrived, in a way that suggested there was some degree of wish fulfillment involved, and TSAR felt like a fantasy that one would cook about his friends and secret crushes.
Overall though his books are really fascinating, both in prose and historical context. I like him.
for whom the bell tolls repeatedly slanders literally the greatest heroes who ever lived and it's generally a boring book where people argue in a cave for 400 pages
that's all i know about the dude though
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good post
