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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Hemingway: A Review



Ken Burns and Lynn Novick do a very good job with this documentary. Definitely a larger than life character. Time catches up with us all eventually and Hemingway definitely got hit in the head too many times and drank way too much. Things got worse and worse for him over time, with Ernst lashing out at those around him, till he eventually ended it all at 61

Hemingway was deeply flawed. A writer who did great and terrible work. A libertarian who expressed that personal liberty and less government is the best, who while supporting the struggle against Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, pandered and covered for Stalin's Communist monsters. What was interesting about that segment was how cowered Hemingway was by the leftist media and literary critics not to criticize the left to the point of cowardice (sound familiar?). 

Hemingway was not particularly religious (he was raised an Oak Park Protestant and later during WWI became a Catholic, but while not an atheist, mostly worshiped himself). He could be both a great and absent father. His relationships with women were at best complicated (and certainly at a minimum emotionally abusive). He could be generous to other writers and also incredibly (shockingly) petty and mean. We now know that traumatic brain injury can lead to early mental decline, personality change, and eventually dementia/suicide. From injuries in both World Wars and during his adventuresome life, Hemingway had a series of severe concussions and brain injuries that go well beyond what an NFL player would get over a career. Hemingway's personally in the last decade of his life became far more abusive to his friends and family. 

He might have gotten over the alcohol, even a family history of mental health issues (his father committed suicide), but the head injuries he suffered were probably just too much. Treatments at the Mayo Clinic (mostly electro-shock therapy) did not help. It was a sad end, yet despite all the bad things, he certainly had a hell of a life. RIP. 















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