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Author: Hemingway
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Dec 1999
Deader Than The Lion, Perhaps...
by Ted Whittaker
If it’s Hemingway, there must be slaughter. He’s about that. And the heroes of his books must wallow in it. Women? Secondary, at best; no hope of equality, of domestic getting-along. Other people, especially those not blessed to be literate speakers of a European language? All right, he’ll allow them a moment beneath the sun—all men are brothers, under fire. But behind his egalitarian rhetoric, Papa was a colonial apologist and a great retailer of lies about himself and others, never forget. Read more...
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