The Ghost of RubangB said:
Yes! Literature is my main weakness, especially literature history. I need to read more books, but I spend all my reading time reading about movies, games, and music. And I only read a little Hemingway in school, but I looooved it. I guess I'm just a sucker for minimalism in any medium now that I think about it. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for post-WW1 art. |
Well, when I said you basically knew how it went already, I wasn't kidding.
For a long time there were critics (are critics) - and by critics I mean reviewers, of course, not the people who sit around and argue about meaning, though they're also critics - who hel that the Victorian froo-froo flowery language was the best way of things, and that minimalism and suggestion were the last resort of cavemen who couldn't hold pens long enough to get down and dirty with Dickens.
Fewer people said this about Hemingway himself because he was one of the true geniuses, but he had a lot of detractors at the time too
