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Wysłany: Sob 14:39, 05 Mar 2011 Temat postu: and Sinclair Lewis |
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he working
classlike Tom Kromer’s
Waiting for NothingAlbert Maltz’s
Black Pitand
Nelson Algren’s Somebody in Boots―were getting the enthusiastic
reviews. Even Sherwood Anderson (Puzzled America) and Sinclair Lewis
(It Can’t Happen Here) had climbed aboard the bash-America bandwagon.
And it hurt Hemingway even more that Dos Passos was following up The
42ndParalleland 1919with a third prose behemoth
The Big Money.
(Hemingway liked Dos Passos’ novelsand he wrote to him in 1932
“Don’t let a fool like Cowley [Malcolm] tell you the Camera Eye isn’t
swell.”
3)
Hemingway had been arguing against taking political positions in
literature for years. In 1932he had written Paul Romaine that he did
not intend to take “the Leftward Swing” (which he called “so much
horseshit”). Hemingway’s manifesto wasratherthat he did not
“follow the fashions in politicslettersreligion.” He also railed against
communism.
4A few months laterhe wrote to Guy Hickok somewhat
wrylythat in the coming elections the United States had “a big choice”
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Sentimental Reformer” and “The Yes-Man of Moscow” (referring to
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