Thus, critics often consider him a precursor of minimalism, associating him with writers like Raymond Carver or even Bret Easton Ellis. Every page has a pattern of repetitions, which the author intentionally creates. And above all, a sense of death dripping into the silences and cracks of human life.Īnd not even Nabokov was immune to the charm of Hemingway’s style: brisk and rhythmic, his sentences brief and substantial. Indeed, The Forty-Nine Stories embody most of Hemingway’s prominent themes: the conflict between man and nature, solitude, incommunicability, virile effort, and an almost mythic exaltation of bravery. He was probably talking about Fiesta, but it’s also true that Nabokov’s joke mocks some of the main themes found in Hemingway’s corpus. In 1967 The Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, known for his particularly sharp judgments of other writers, said about The Forty-Nine Stories‘ author Ernest Hemingway: “As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 40s, something about bells, balls, and bulls, and loathed it”.
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