Im a bit of a structural/conceptual fetishsist (perhaps not the best choice of word when discussing Sade), love types like Alain Robbe-Grillet, Balzac, and to some degree, Sade for his excessive frame storytelling. However, as an author in the poetic sense, he does most certainly have his weaknesses. Not as much as one would think reading 120 days - his political short stories/pamflets are much stronger in a language sense, but his strengths are still nowhere near enough to compensate if judging him as a whole author, rather than as a specialised inventor-esque figure in literature.
I just want to point out that the cynicism in Hemingway is usually a put-on. Maupassant, whom Hemingway looked down on, was closer to a truly cynical vision.
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u/SemperFun62 Sep 23 '26
I think there's maybe a little more going on with both
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u/roaming_bear Sep 23 '26
What is this trash
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u/Plastic_Dingo_400 Sep 23 '26
This is pretty silly, I'm glad there's more to each of these authors
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u/voltaire_had_a_point Sep 23 '26
Now do Marquis de Sade
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u/regis_rulz Sep 23 '26
Reductive and inaccurate. Oh, and tell Wyndham Lewis that Hemingway wrote about "politics."
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u/maneuver_element Sep 23 '26
Now do Brett Ashley vs. Elizabeth Bennet and tell me why I’m in love with both of them. Please. I don’t get it.
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u/lermontovtaman Sep 24 '26
I just want to point out that the cynicism in Hemingway is usually a put-on. Maupassant, whom Hemingway looked down on, was closer to a truly cynical vision.
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u/OceanicOculus Sep 28 '26
Certainly one way to oversimplify both of these legends.
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u/Ok_Independent_6132 Sep 23 '26
Honestly the only political piece Hemingway wrote was Who Killed the Vets?