Tag Archives: Ernest Hemingway

americans abroad: in search of “classical” education

The Henry James archetype of the American abroad: Generally painters, novelists or historians of the arts. Almost all of them idlers who live on unearned income and found in Switzerland an ideal tax haven; pensioners an elderly couples stretching their … Continue reading

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ambassadors for the innocents

Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities and Hemingway took his lusty appetites in the tradition of Mark twain and his Innocents abroad, an enduring myth from the perch of American cultural and moral superiority, a sort of purity … Continue reading

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updike: slow accretions of random detail

If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading

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updike: small appliances of civilization

…”They were just people, members of the race of white anmals…Highly neural, brachycephalic, unquely able to oppose their thumbs to the four other digits, they bred with elegant settlements, and both burned and interred their dead.” They were the people … Continue reading

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so romantic: but NIMBY

Something American about it. That snappy walk, The way the gum is chewed. There is no end to the American ingenuity of shaping public opinion. Its post-Imperialism. There is always this incorporation of the “other” within a narrative that serves … Continue reading

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big country: call of the wild

Its a great business model. He travels into the far north, the deep tundra, and paints wilderness from within. He has corporate sponsorship from parka to paint brush and he even carries a rifle to defend himself and sometimes his … Continue reading

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ahmed: melancholy imperfections

…Ahmed came from the forests of Mount Marsabit in Kenya. The only elephant to be declared a living monument, President Kenyatta also provided him with a permanent guard against poachers. A loner and quite elusive, Ahmed was seldom seen and … Continue reading

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fear of a blank page: farewell to the shadowland

Hemingway’s story on his visit to Spain in 1959 got out of control and became a rambling mass of words, a tangle of literature nearly three times longer than the forty thousand words Life magazine had agreed to print. Hemingway … Continue reading

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when the bell tolls

…Besides all that, Hemingway was committed to his public image. He was also weary of it and fatigued by its constant demands. Perhaps. But it was bigger than him and could lead him by the nose; as a fisherman he … Continue reading

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Islands in the dream

Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Scolds. Two men. Two souls; the image and the shadow circling each other. He mostly lived up to that dazzling public persona he constructed for himself, but what deeper forces, psychic jackals, stalked his … Continue reading

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