--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
I finished The Virginian a few
> weeks back. I commented heavily in the margins as
I
> was reading it and meant to get around to
putting
> together some thoughts on it but it hasn't
happened.
> The main thing I wanted to comment on was
the
> variations I saw in the Virginian as compared
to
> Cooper's Natty Bumppo, and how that related to
the
> first hardboiled heroes of Daly and Hammett and
later
> Hemingway's code hero. I'll have to get around
to
> that one of these days.
>
> I think a great topic worthy of discussion would
be
> literature that led up to the noir and
hardboiled
> genre.
>
> miker
>
Owen Wister, author of The Virginian, was a friend and mentor
to Ernest Hemingway. They met in Wyoming and became hunting
and fishing companions. Wister early on recognized
Hemingway's talent and became something of a mentor to him.
Hemingway always treated Wister with great respect and to my
knowledge never turned on him as he did with Stein and other
early supporters. Wister once realized that Hemingway was
hard up for cash and unsolicited sent him a check for $500.
Hemingway never had to cash it because a book advance made it
unnecessary but it was a gesture of support and friendship he
never forgot.
When A FAREWELL TO ARMS was banned in Boston, Maxwell Perkins
reached out to Wister, who gladly came out in public defense
of the novel which he had originally read and critiqued in
draft manuscript.
Richard Moore
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