Correlation of titles bet. Hem & Turgenev; and a ? for Hal: Ernest Hemingway Campfire
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In Reply to: Re: moby- posted by Hal on October 27, 192000 at 07:12:12:
: : kwj(did I spel thet right?), : : I'm not shure thet Hemingwey ever acknowledged anybody, did he? I know he bragged about bein' finally better then Tolstoy, which I doubt. Thanks fer the reminder about this site. Let's see how long it takes us t' be throwd out of this place. Hal
: : : Reading Moby-, I was taken by some similiarity between it and Death in the Afternoon. : : : History, legend, descriptions of bulls and bullfighting, directly addressing the reader, etc. : : : Anybody know (pjk?) if EH ever mentioned melville (I'm sure he read him. I don't recall seeing this.
: : : many thanks
: : : kwt
: Pjk, Ya put me t' shame. Yep, I forgot about Turgenev, Mark Twain, an' the rest. Guess I was preoccupied! Have any a you ever read Turgenev? Is he th' one rote "Sketches of a Sportsman" or "Sportsman's Sketches" or somethin' like that? I'm curious whet his writin' is like. I can see how Twain woulda influenced Hemingstein by flattening out his prose, whet I remember about Twain. You fellers and gals make me want t' go back an' red them fellars. Thar's so many too red though. Hal
-- Have any of you noticed that one of Turgenev's major novels is titled Fathers and Sons, and the last Nick Adams story has the same title?
Also, Hal, what do you mean about Hem "flattening out his prose" after the style of Twain? In what sense is Twain's prose flat? That's the last word I would use to describe Twain's prose, though I could sometimes see it in Hem.