--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Jack Bludis
<buildsnburns@...> wrote:
>
> Another piece that I think is right: Hemingway was
a
> reporter in Spain during the civil war. Right?
Wrong? Shall
> we vote? Can anyone verify?
>
He was. And he had lots of experience in Spain and a deep
understanding of the culture. And he liked Spain the way it
was (and is), so nothing he wrote, good or bad, feels
falsified or self-serving, even today. He may have been a
romantic, but he had great intelligence and lucidity as well.
Whether some of his novels succeed (I am thinking
specifically of For Whom the Bell Tolls) or endure is a
different matter. But he didn't make up a Spain out of whole
cloth, far from it.
Best,
mrt
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