Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to cover all varieties of artistic, literary and musical experimentalism. A useful and readable history of the literary Thirties is Geniuses Together by Kay Boyle-Joyce, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Pound, Eliot and the rest. They all became famous figures but too many of them developed defects of character-ambition, meanness, boastfulness, cowardice or inhumanity-that defrauded their early genius. Experimentalism is a quality alien to genius. It implies doubt, hope, uncertainty, the need for group reassurance; whereas genius works alone, in confidence of a foreknown result. Experiments are useful as a demonstration of how not to write, paint or compose if one's interest lies in durable rather than fashionable results; but since far more self-styled artists are interested in frissons á la mode rather than in truth, it is foolish to protest. Experimentalism means variation on the theme of other people's uncertainties.
Robert GravesStichwörter: genius eliot pound fitzgerald hemingway experimentalism
Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.'
'I'll tell her,' I said.
'Don't bother. I can always wait here. It's very pleasant in the sun now, isn't it?'
'It's fall now,' I said. 'I don't think you dress warmly enough.'
'It's only cool in the evening,' Evan said. 'I'll wear my coat.'
'Do you know where it is?'
'No. But it's somewhere safe.'
'How do you know?'
'Because I left the poem in it.
You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: hemingway god-rest-you-merry-gentlemen winner-take-nothing
Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: hemingway winner-take-nothing the-light-of-the-world
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
Ernest HemingwayI'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: hemingway ernest-hemingway in-our-time out-of-season
You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: inspirational writing hemingway
In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not
completely trust anyone.
Stichwörter: war trust hemingway lost-generation
The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: people paris hemingway cafes alone-in-a-crowd
In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: reading dostoevsky hemingway
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