Re: Hemmingway and WP


Subject: Re: Hemmingway and WP
From: Alphonse Vinh (Yinshih@AOL.COM)
Date: Thu Jul 15 1999 - 15:17:17 EDT


Hello Ken:

I revere Miss Welty and Katherine Anne Porter. What I meant to say, however,
was that Faulkner and Hemingway were the two most dominant fiction writers of
their generation. Friends and colleagues of both men would bring up the other
writer when speaking of literary coevals.

Cleanth Brooks has discussed Faulkner's stoical world-view with great
understanding. In Faulkner's universe, divine transcendence is not a given.
There are believers amongst his characters, of course, since his terrain was
the South, which if not always believing, is at least Christ-haunted.

When Faulkner talks about going through the pain, he is not speaking of
accepting suffering for the sake of Christ who suffered and died on the Cross
so that men might be saved. The people who have Faulkner's greatest
admiration are people like Dilsey, of whom he says, "and they endured."

//Alphonse



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