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...Hemingway imitator who has made two or three safaris to Africa in the last few years, Author Ruark has obviously heard a lot of talk over the campfires and hotel bars. He has also looked over the published authorities - one of his characters quotes whole pages from Negley Farson's Last Chance in Africa. Every thing that he reports may well have happened. But the real tragedy of black-white fratricide in Africa is hopelessly drowned in gore. Something of Value is a novel without taste or distinction...
...National Book Award for last year's best fiction (A Fable), gave a peripatetic interview to New York Timesman Harvey Breit as the two strolled down Manhattan's gilt-edged Park Avenue. Faulkner suddenly exclaimed that his widely quoted statement about fellow Nobel Prizewinning Author Ernest Hemingway's literary cowardice (TIME, Dec. 13) had been Yoknapatawphaed all out of context.* "I was asked the question down at the University of Mississippi-who were the five best contemporary writers and how did I rate them," drawled Faulkner. "And I said, Wolfe, Hemingway, Dos Passes, Caldwell and myself...
...clash between "paleface and redskin." This is critical shorthand for the interrelated battles of highbrow v. lowbrow, refined sensibility v. raw energy, the tradition-directed writer v. the self-made writer. The palefaces, e.g., Hawthorne, Melville, James, ruled the 19th century; the redskins, e.g., Dreiser, Anderson, Wolfe, Hemingway, Faulkner, rule the 20th. As the first great chief of the redskins, Whitman would take ironic relish in the latest paleface compliment paid him, a definitive biography by New York University English Professor Gay Wilson Allen-the biggest and probably the best of some 50-odd lives of Whitman in print...
...look for symbols, moral or religious, in Ernest Hemingway's literary works? For me, Hemingway is the foremost outdoor existentialist of the New World...
...Since Hemingway has criticized my book about him rather publicly ("How would you like it if someone said that everything you've done in your life was done because of some trauma?"), I'd like a chance to reply: It makes a lot of difference how you say a thing, and that is not quite what, or all, I said. The book was written in an attempt to understand Hemingway's work and to praise it. Almost everyone else has seen it that way, and I wish he could...