A movable feast4/20/2023 ![]() Some people have called Hemingway’s prose childish and simplistic, but his genius was his use of a few strong words to do so much work. Hemingway believed each word was a brushstroke on the page. Strong strokes construct the landscape like Lincoln logs. His painting of Saint Victoire mountains could have been done with on an iPhone. I wish I were more of an expert in art, but I do know Cezanne believed in using big bold brush strokes. He studied them, and invited the artist to influence his writing. When he visited the Musée de Luxembourg, he didn't just glance at the Cezannes. He looked to a painter to transform his work. He didn’t apprentice himself just to writers. There is a great continuum in this art form, an inheritance that every writer can and should apprentice themselves to.īut there is a divergence in Hemingway. When I began learning about Hemingway’s actual life and influences, it helped me to realize that to transform the way I approached writing, I needed to see myself as part of the tradition. I’ve heard the point of art is not communication, but I realized then they were trying to give something to me, some greater perspective of the world maybe. Writers, I realized, were somehow not part of the evil plan hatched by professors to torture their students, but real people, with real ambitions and insecurities. I saw him with his sacked lunch, made by his loving first wife Hadley, drinking out of a thermos (did they have those in the 1920s?) and tracing those bold brushstrokes with his eyes. I saw Hemingway drinking cups of French coffee at a cafe with black and white pictures on the wall, writing slowly, with lots of crossouts. If we misremembered, they would denounce us before God at those golden gates.īut Dr. They were empty-eyed faces carved into cathedral stone, looking down on us to make sure we knew their names. The authors, if I had imagined them, were like statues in some museum, old cracked marble missing limbs, dust piled atop their heads. ![]() In college, I read Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and all the other writers infamous among college students everywhere. When my English Literature professor, Marilyn McEntyre, told us Hemingway would write all day in small Parisian cafes and, afterward, take his lunch to the Musée du Luxembourg where he would look at Cezannes, it transformed how I looked at authors - and writing, for that matter - forever. ![]() ![]() Click here to download your guide instantly. Urn:oclc:647840318 Republisher_date 20121116190302 Republisher_operator Scandate 20121113205158 Scanner Guide: Want to become a writer? Get our free 10-step guide to becoming a writer here and accomplish your dream today. OL63064W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.65 Pages 242 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0099549190 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:11:16 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA161409 Boxid_2 CH120001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor ![]()
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