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There is a strange inversion which occurs whenthose who would see Hemingway's writing as mereform assume a total merging of form and meaning inthe bravado and masculine ritual thatcharacterized Hemingway's writing and his cult ofpersonality: it is imagined that what appearsadolescent and foolish is merely adolescent andfoolish, driven by the same insecurities thatdrive adolescents. Thus there is only scorn forthe behavior described by Malcolm Cowley in 1925,just a year after the publication of Hemingway'sfirst full-length collection of short stories...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who's Afraid of Mr. Hemingway? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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