![]() ![]() Moreover, it is in no sense a novel, as the publishers would have us believe. I do not believe that it will eventually be placed among Hemingway’s major writings. Though the merit of this new story is incontestable, so are its limitations. Publicity is the reward as well as the nemesis of celebrities, but it has nothing in common with judgment. It is to be hoped that the recovery is more than temporary and that it will stand him in good stead in the completion of the long work he is reported to have embarked on some years ago.īut free as this latest work is of the faults of the preceding one, it is still by no means the masterpiece which the nationwide publicity set off by its publication in Life magazine has made it out to be. The artist in him appears to have regained control, curbing the over-assertive ego which sometimes declines into a kind of morbid irritability of self-love mixed with self-pity. ![]() Hemingway’s new story happily demonstrates his recovery from the distemper that so plainly marked his last novel, Across the River and into the Trees. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |