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Ernest Hemingway
Reviews Hemingway's life and times, discusses his major works, and looks at important themes in his novels
156 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1990
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June 22, 2022
Finally, a book and an analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s work and status which does not indulge in the almost obligatory genuflection and regurgitate the usual oddly sycophantic nonsense about Hemingway.
Peter Hays is concise, clear, illuminating and to the point. He points out that Hemingway’s contribution to literary history was being one of the first of the 2oth century’s writers to make a break with the past subject matter and, crucially, style of the past and launch a new aesthetic in what writing could do.
He records that it wasn’t exactly what Hemingway wrote but how he went about it, and, whether consciously or not, reflected the changing world the 20th century was becoming, one in which new media, new ways of doing things, new values was speeding life up and the rather leisurely de haut en bas editorialising stance of the 19th century’s writers no longer either suited or reflect the then modern world.
For me Hays book came as a great relief, and I recommend it to everyone who wants a well-expressed and succinct account of that the hoo-haa over Hemingway was all about.
Peter Hays is concise, clear, illuminating and to the point. He points out that Hemingway’s contribution to literary history was being one of the first of the 2oth century’s writers to make a break with the past subject matter and, crucially, style of the past and launch a new aesthetic in what writing could do.
He records that it wasn’t exactly what Hemingway wrote but how he went about it, and, whether consciously or not, reflected the changing world the 20th century was becoming, one in which new media, new ways of doing things, new values was speeding life up and the rather leisurely de haut en bas editorialising stance of the 19th century’s writers no longer either suited or reflect the then modern world.
For me Hays book came as a great relief, and I recommend it to everyone who wants a well-expressed and succinct account of that the hoo-haa over Hemingway was all about.
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