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Hey, guys! I'm happy I've found this group!!!!I'm doing my dissertation on Hemingway's works.He's my favorite author and I'm glad I can combine work and pleasure doing the research.But I need to understand some things, could you please help me? To start with, will you,please,write a bit, why you read Hem?What for?

This is easy. I like his prose. I like his stories and how haunting many of them are. I like his sparse language,and yet he says so much with inferences, symbolism, and undertones. I like his masculine ways of looking at things. BTW, I am one of the moderators. Great to see you here,and I hope you get a lot of comments. Thanks for starting this discussion. Gary

Here are my thoughts�

Hemingway's literary style is unique for his time. His style has been described as sparse, but actually, he accomplishes the opposite with his writing. He used only the words necessary to outline his scenes, and then allows his readers to draw upon their own imagery, based upon their own experiences, to fill in the details. In this way, sparse becomes more vibrant in the minds of his readers than any extensive description made of words could ever hope to achieve.

Another aspect of his writing that I enjoy is that Hemingway strives for truth. He used is own experiences in life and adapted those experiences to his stories. For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms convey 'popular' truths about war and the nature of human conflict, and were therefore successful. However, even his unsuccessful books, such as Across the River and into the Trees, convey truth; it's just that the truth in these books was probably a bit too personal to Hemingway to be well received by the greater public. The need for truth may also explain why Hemingway was not a prolific writer. Writing fiction without truth was something that Hemingway did not enjoy doing, and thus, had no desire to do often.

Gary and Daniel, thank you for answering! Apparently not many people are willing to join this conversation(((

Hey Kzenia, Im new to Hemingway. Will be reading in October- once I have I will tell you what I think. I wanted to try Hemingway, as he is often referenced and recommended

Lisa wrote: "Hey Kzenia, Im new to Hemingway. Will be reading in October- once I have I will tell you what I think. I wanted to try Hemingway, as he is often referenced and recommended" it's great! Thank you. Could you please, write me here [email protected] I will send you a file with the description of my experimental work, just look through it, may be it'll be interesting for you to do?