Shattered Reflections on Hemingway... - For the sake of conversation, Posted: Apr 10th, 2021 - 1:05 pm In Reply to: Directed by Ken Burns. Tells you all you need to know. - I'll just state the obvious. He
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By some surfing accident on YouTube, I stumbled on a short black-and-white video of a Cuban journalist conducting a Spanish-language interview with Ernest Hemingway shortly after the American author was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. I’d never heard Hemingway speak Spanish, and I was astonished not by how halting and awkward his Spanish was, but that I’d still held illusions about Hemingway that could be shattered. It stunned me. I thought I had busted all his myths, and had years ago totally extirpated his deep influence—not only on my writing but on my life. Nevertheless, he continues to haunt me. Why?
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