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A Photo of Hemingway Looking Rakish, Just Because

Posted on July 21, 2013 by maedez

Hemingway in Paris, circa 1924.

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

14 thoughts on “A Photo of Hemingway Looking Rakish, Just Because”

Naked Lola on July 21, 2013 at 6:52 pm said:

Thank you! I will accept this as an un-birthday present.

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- maedez on July 27, 2013 at 12:38 pm said:
  
  Un-birthday presents are the best.
  
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silverscreenings on July 21, 2013 at 10:10 pm said:

Ha! He IS looking rakish. Look at that jaunty beret.

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- maedez on July 27, 2013 at 12:40 pm said:
  
  That beret is the best. It cracked me up.
  
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Middlemay Farm on July 22, 2013 at 7:50 am said:

I don’t care if he wasn’t a feminist–he’s still very handsome. And The Nick Adams stories are some of my favorite stories ever.

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- maedez on July 27, 2013 at 12:42 pm said:
  
  I do not care for him personally, but some of his writing is terrific. Plus, handsome is handsome.
  
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  - Middlemay Farm on July 28, 2013 at 7:49 am said:
    
    I never understood why his novels were considered so great, though. His female characters always ring hollow to me, but I guess the Nick Adams stories appeal to that part of me growing up who wished I was a boy 🙂
    
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  - maedez on July 29, 2013 at 5:34 pm said:
    
    He is incredibly problematic from a feminist standpoint, and personality-wise I find him pretty revolting. Excessive braggadocio rubs me the wrong way. I think the reason his novels are still considered great has very little to do with content or characterization, and everything to do with his beautiful concision of language.
    
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  - Middlemay Farm on July 29, 2013 at 9:07 pm said:
    
    I guess for me, if a writer doesn’t let me get close to characters I quickly get bored of impressive language skills. For some reason as a teenager Hemingway’s Nick Adams struck a chord, but everything else was sort of blah and miserable to me.
    
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  - maedez on August 2, 2013 at 7:32 pm said:
    
    I have never been a big Hemingway fan, but as a writer I appreciate his economy of language. It is not so much that his language is impressive, but rather how much he did with the words he chose (if that makes sense).
    
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  - Middlemay Farm on August 2, 2013 at 8:03 pm said:
    
    Yes, I think it’s why I like his short stories. The spare quality of them appeals to me sometimes. Other times I like big, over the top language. depends on the mood.
    
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  - maedez on August 5, 2013 at 1:42 pm said:
    
    I enjoy both, as well.
    
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Casey C on July 23, 2013 at 1:25 am said:

Oh, yes.

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- maedez on July 27, 2013 at 12:45 pm said:
  
  There are more where this came from.
  
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