… it is the Hemingway style, developed slowly as he toiled away at his first book of short stories while in Paris, that distinguished his stories from reportage, a style long afterwards as codified as answers in a sophomore lit exam: Short simple declarative sentences; limited choice of words; a shortage of adjectives; Biblical phrases and cadence; stream of consciousness passages.
Friday, July 20, 2018
The style and the man …
… On the Art and Influence of Hemingway's Short Stories | Literary Hub. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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