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HEMINGWAY

                                         December  2, 2012

   "'Hemingway's tragedy as an artist,' Cyril Connolly
   writes in _Enemies of Promise_, 'is that he has not
   had the versatility to run away fast enough from his
   imitators... A Picasso would have done something
   different; Hemingway could only indulge in invective
   against his critics-- and do it again.'  The list of
   Hemingwayesque writers includes James M. Cain,
   Erskine Caldwell, John O'Hara, and a school of
   detective fiction headed by Dashiel Hammett and
   Raymond Chandler.  It also includes Hemingway."

      -- Dwight Macdonald,
         "Ernest Hemingway"                  Hammett started
         _Masscult and Midcult_,             publishing some years
         p. 105                              before Hemingway, but
                                             literary influence can
         DWIGHT_MAC                          flow backwards in time
                                             where necessary to prop
                                             up the high-artistes.







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