"Being close to nature, fully respecting it, means acknowledging its cruelty as well as its beauty. The modern, urban human being finds it hard to do both: either nature is a gentle earth mother to be loved and embraced, or it is a savage force to be tamed. Hemingway's old man shows that, in fact, it is both."Contribution to Norman Geras's Writer's choice series.
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
On Hemingway at normblog
