The media mania for anniversaries is taking hold with the 50th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's suicide. On July 2, 1961, Hemingway at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, blew out his brains with a shotgun while his wife, Mary, slept. In the last week, I've read two pieces on Hemingway, the latest in Saturday's New York Times by Hemingway pal and biographer A.E. Hotchner. The gist of Hotchner's piece was that Hemingway wasn't delusional in thinking that FBI agents were tapping his phone and following him; Hotchner found through a Freedom of Information Act receipt of documents that J. Edgar Hoover's spooks really were following the author. As the saying goes, attributed to San Francisco music writer Ralph J. Gleason, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.
Hemingway's Paris years after World War I continue their romantic pull, as in Woody Allen's movie "Midnight in Paris." Last year, I read the "unedited" version of Heminway's "A Moveable Feast," which restored parts reportedly removed by Mary. The book's image of the young, idealistic Hemingway is an admirable contrast to the outsized self-parody he became.
Hotchner in his New York Times piece quotes Hemingway speaking, his voice sounding like one of those bad Hemingway contests. By the end, paranoid and depressed and having lost the ability to concentrate on his writing, Hemingway decided to end it all.
No matter how unlikable I find the late Hemingway, I'll always admire much in his work. Many of his short stories continue to live for me among works I'll continue to reread. His novels I consider lesser works, but I plan to one day reread "The Sun Also Rises," which I loved in college.
Hemingway's death 50 years ago marks the end of a time in American culture when novelists were still venerated and the masculine ideal was far different. It was the height of American power, when the Cold War was raging, when deep and powerful cultural currents were evoking major changes. Yet, a rereading of Heminway's early short stories, like other classic works, reveal the unchangeability of the human heart.
I feel the same way about him and his writing. His life seems tragic, documented first, evidently without intention, by Lillian Ross when he was fifty. He was a conceited alcoholic blowhard. The latest major bio, Meyers's I think, is hard to read. He was wounded in childhood, could not forgive, and became an awful person. I for one think it affected his art as the years went by. His short stories are the best. I think the first chapter of A Farewell to Arms (two pages) is heartbreakingly beautiful. But I now really dislike his stilted, sentimental, and hysterical portrayal of the core love relationship.
Posted by: Richard Gilbert | 07/09/2011 at 05:05 PM
Richard: Nice hearing from you. I agree on "A Farewell to Arms." I did enjoy "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in high school, but probably would find it heavy handed and stilted now, especially the wooden Hemingway dialogue.
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