my first hemingway. nice plot with the his incomparable writing style. the female character is astonishing. ( )

Thank God it ended. Enjoying some sympathy for David and his stories, and tasting Hemingway's evocative intelligent sentence structure did not make up for the sense of having my time wasted by boring, self-indulgent tourists drinking absinthe in the sun and having tedious self-obsessed non-conversations about their dull, miserable selves. I hope Catherine came back, they all swam very far out to sea indeed and were all accidentally harpooned on the Old Man's spike. ( )

Usually, I don't like Hemingway, but there is something that I like about this book. When I figure out what that is, I will let you know. ( )

Tissue-thin depiction of Hemingway's first marriage and its dissolution. Even after all those years, the loss (in the novel, the destruction by fire) of his early writings at the hands of his wife are all but undendurable. The most intriguing part of the novel is the reconstruction of the "lost" manuscript: a coming-of-age hunting tale, where the husband/author tries to come to terms with his relationship with his father. Somewhat more candor than usual as regards sexual relations, although some of the sex games between husband and wife are still decidedly on the ambiguous side. Is the "envelope-bursting "merely an allusion to female superior? Or are we getting a bit further down the road? ( )

Se anmeldelse:

http://no.librarything.com/work/13128... ( )