Is it just me or is this kind of basic bitch
is all Hemingway kind of mundane nowadays? Is this "Seinfeld isn't funny" in action?

Didn't do much for me either. I know he's supposed to be a Christ figure but was anything else going on?

>>24517141 (OP)
Hemingway was “mundane” to his contemporaries. When Faulkner criticized him his reply was famously:
> Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
That it doesn’t resonate with you says little about the time interval since he wrote, since there are many authors who didn’t write his way equally distant from you.
Perhaps in a larger sense though, with fewer people now involved in manual labour, who would walk in the woods or fish for fun, fewer people who drink themselves to a stupor socially, the things he talks about aren’t just not in your experience but perhaps not even in your dad’s or grandfather’s experience. In that sense what he talks about may be alien to the modern urbanite.

>>24517150
> When some suggested the story is a kind of allegory, Hemingway said, ‘There isn’t any symbolism, the sea is the sea, the old man is an old man, the sharks are all sharks, no better nor worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit.’

>>24517152
this feels like a moronic reply. at no point did I say it was beyond me or that I "didn't get it." the idea that people find meaning from challenge and work for the sake of it, harmony with nature, yadayada is all things I understand and appreciate. but it didn't feel I gained anything new that I haven't acquired through other media other than >>24517150 the symbolism stuff

I will say it seems like a novella that can be reread over time and more can be gained from it. which probably justifies any of its simplicity

>>24517155
You talk like a fag and you embrace what he explicitly rejected so no, you didn’t get it. We’re now at the point where you’re so clueless even talking to you is pointless.

>>24517184
you're right, I should stop reading all literature and just read Buzzfeed articles to embrace the literality that Hemingway supported

>>24517150
Son, this better be a meme you're doing.

>>24517152
>Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
Which was a retarded thing to say because Faulkner never said such thing. Hemingway was a dishonest worm at his core.

>>24517141 (OP)
I'm reading this now and it's sooo boring

>>24517712
no :(

>>24517141 (OP)
>nothing happens: the book

>>24517141 (OP)
Seinfeld isn't funny though