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
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.
Just because something is influential doesnt mean it’s good
I mean to be fair to you, Hemingway might be okay himself but he still has the same problem as Radiohead, just has the absolute worst and most pretentious stans whose first exposure to Edginess (For Men™) was through that media and who openly looks down on people who don’t care for it, and life is too short for me to ever have another conversation about music with one more Radiohead stan
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
