Thursday, June 29, 2017

Ernest Hemingway, Chatty Sensualist

Adam Gopnik looks at Papa's biography, writing style, and (yes) kinks, and finds that, for all the "stoical stance" in his prose and his persona, he had quite a sensual (if not quite hedonistic) side - and, what's more, "he was naturally garrulous and jocose: indeed, by the time he was a celebrity he was so garrulous and jocose that it shocked people, though he was just being himself."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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