If something is hidden or implied, it means that the mere fact of it being hidden is important. Rather, Carver’s bare prose makes everything float up to the surface. When you read Carver, you don’t need to dig deep to find buried ideas. The purpose of minimalism is to reveal using few words.Ĭarver came years later and saw it through. It’s how cheap thrillers keep us hooked by hinting that if we invest more time, a revelation will come. Yet holding back information isn’t good storytelling. When he talks about his Iceberg Theory, he talks about hiding things from the reader. Nowadays, Hemingway’s prose reads more like a parody of realism. This fascinating Hemingway is the only good thing about Men Without Women. I wouldn’t even need to add themes – masculinity, romance and war are constant themes in Hemingway’s life. If I needed source material for an epic tragedy, I wouldn’t need to look further. He traveled the worlds, participated in wars, hunted, fished, went through four marriages only to commit suicide. Many tell stories, but Hemingway lived in an epic poem.
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