Word: hemingways
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...Garcia Márquez adopts an entirely new voice. Chiefly through dialogue, he turns what has been the daily routine between a prostitute and the owner of the restaurant she frequents into a collision of moral and life-and-death choices. If this stark story suggests the influence of Hemingway, the next one announces the sway of William Faulkner. Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait (1951) contains a wealthy estate, a black stableboy who has been kicked in the head by a horse, a drooling idiot child and a rhetorical, parenthesis-choked concluding sentence 375 words long...
Charles Ruas speaks in his introduction of personae, archetypes, universal dialogues and seminal experiences. The idea of the Great American Novel hovers feebly over the graves of Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Majestic imaginations recede, literary vision narrows, culture breaks into fragments, and the public slinks off to attend the marriage of arts and leisure...
...Cotton Club" really was a Harlem nightclub that popped up during the prohibition era. This infamous speakeasy partied socialites, mobsters and movie stars; gang wars were Hemingway's "lost generation" found themselves in the tunes of performers like Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson...
...returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself out in the dining room mirror/ And undid an extra button on her blouse." As in Ernest Hemingway's seminal short story Soldier's Home, the reunion is full of restless memories and long shadows. The vet lies in bed, next to his wife, staring at the ceiling, his hands paralyzed, terrified of the darkness and the narrow future ahead of him. There have been a number...
Here is the 23-year-old star as Adam, alternately impudent and bored in The Creation of the World; here is the sinuous Pedro Romero, the bullfighter of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises; here is the classic, vaulting Pan, making the kind of leaps that remain incredible, even when they are frozen on the page and documented by the author. Alovert's text is eloquent, but nothing can match her photographic chronicle; this is the kind of history that is, in the best sense, revealing...