Quote: (03-27-2013 07:27 PM)Captain Ahab Wrote:
I am going through the whole "restructuring my identity" phase currently and picked up Ernest Hemingway's short story collection.
I can relate to him being that he was dicked over by his mother and was an emotional novelist.
My ambitions match his save the hard drinking and hunting. I feel we are both macho men that allowed are emotions to pour over into our writing. And we both decided to act on masculinity as a principal rather than simply because of our emotions.
I am shooting for his lifestyle in regards to his track record in journalism and writing novels and short stories.
I plan on reading it in the next few days. I welcome anyone to check it out.
Also, check out The Sun Also Rises by the same author. He predicted with a sexually liberated female character the emasculation of men.
Brett, the liberated woman, is pursued by the main character who is impotent due to injuries suffered during the war. Her liberation and sexual freedom wrecks havoc on the male psychology of the men in the novel.
It is Hemingway's first and arguably his best.
For whom the bell tolls by Hemingway is also cut from the same cloth. Set in the spanish civil war,the book is an absolute masterpiece.