tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post7800841938581562627..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Tender Is the Night has some good writing - Fitzgerald's Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!Amateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71517288376266949042020-07-23T22:54:15.795-05:002020-07-23T22:54:15.795-05:00It's just a taste exercise, but I think a hier...It's just a taste exercise, but I think a hierarchy is visible. True fans of today's American plain style would probably find <i>Tender Is the Night</i> overwritten from beginning to end.<br /><br />But if I like surprises - I was not expecting <i>that</i> verb, <i>that</i> adjective - Fitzgerald is maybe at his most surprising in this novel. At his best.<br /><br />I should say, that as a pop writer, Fitzgerald is fun from the beginning. <i>This Side of Paradise</i> is energetic. This is what caught Edmund Wilson's attention right away - American literature had gotten so <i>boring</i>, and here comes a writer, finally, with a sense of fun.<br /><br />Hemingway has his own distinctive tendency towards kitsch. As soon as I figure out what I mean by that, I will write it up.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-19638958610912723732020-07-23T22:26:39.275-05:002020-07-23T22:26:39.275-05:00I was a great fan of Fitzgerald's and Hemingwa...I was a great fan of Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's in high school and college but have since lost track of them so to speak--haven't read them in years although I often wish to. Your consideration of what is good writing vs. overwriting here is very interesting given how out of touch with him I am today as his prose stylist rep is one of the things that people go on and on about.<br />Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.com