WOUNDED BISON
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, by Philip Young; Y. Bell and Sons Ltd., English price 12/6. ‘HIS critical study of Ernest Hemingway could hardly be bettered, Philip Young investigates the emotional or the literary origins of everything he has written, amply proves that the hard cortex is the result of a harshly-bruised youthful sensitiveness, praises the celebrated monosyllabic style (much prettied up in later years) and tells us with considerable insight how Papa got the way he is, a wounded bison of a man, exuding integrity like blood-a nature so masochistic that even the planes he rides in break down under him; a writer so successful in loading his shoulder with chips that Hollywood has never paid anyone more for filming rights. In his time and place Hemingway answered af emotional need and is a fact of history. If you like Papa, you will like this book. I like it, too, even though I now find Papa’s work-once so triumphant and charged with meaning has somehow gone cold on me.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 14
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171WOUNDED BISON New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 14
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