Same, Hemingway was cool friends with Castro but tbh would have been shit to be married to or try and maintain a functional relation with (dude was a lowkey mess)
He’s also not a very good writer. Last time I said that here I got some r*ddit-brained guy telling me i was a high schooler with bad taste tho lmao
Edit: found it
Honestly the main themes I always got was just dude scared of their own mortality and aging as well as some trite diatribe about masculinity or some shit
You might not like it, but his style of simple sentences that slowly coalesce around pretty enormous feelings was incredibly influential in American literature. While I love a complex, wrought sentence, the falling away of that kind of writing made way for a whole new literary environment.
Also sad characters who can’t express their pain except by slowly circling around its source and effects resonate with me.
There’s definitely some stinkers, too.
