Word: hemingways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WHEN Mr. Hemingway's novel, "The Sun Also Rises," was recognized and praised by critics not only for its powerful theme, but also for the simplicity of its style, there was no reason to take exception to general opinion. But when Mr. Hemingway disregards entirely one side of his work, as he has done with several of the short stories in "Winner Take Nothing," we are inclined to think that he has been overestimated as a stylist...
...Never Be," and in "A Natural History of the Dead," which is an excerpt from the prolix thesis on bull-fights, "Death In The Afternoon," Hemingway is bitter, and by no means at his best. "One Reader-Writes" is a letter from a young woman to a doctor columnist in which she asks him if her husband can ever be well after having "sifllus." After completing the letter she moans, saying to herself: "I wish to Christ he hadn't got any kind of malady. I don't know why he had to get a malady." This is an example...
...preceding paragraph contains the acute observations of Madame Fontan on American drinkers in Wyoming. In "Wine of Wyoming," Ernest Hemingway has given a picture of a French couple who earned their living by selling homemade wine and beer at a time when prohibition agents were enforcing the law. Yet it contains some of Hemingway's more humorous lines, for he is wholly at home with these people and recognizes each trait which will amuse an American...
...take several of the characters seriously. This lapse, however, is excusable. Gaetano, the gambler, is an unusual character; Sister Cecilia is the practical nun who prays for Notre Dame in the big game. There is no plot, there are few situations; its virtues may only be ascribed to Mr. Hemingway's consummate technique of making something from nothing...
...Ernest Hemingway's last story in "Winner Take Nothing," is "Fathers And Sons." If not the most original it is at least the most refreshing story in the collection. In this, the author is not satirical, nor is he bitter. The dialogue is terse, but not disconnected. Though Mr. Hemingway is openly sentimental in the sketch of Nicholas Adams's youth, his writing in this story is at his best. Perhaps he will continue to write without the pseudo-hard-boiled veneer which has pervaded most of his short stories in the past. "Fathers And Sons" was the last...