What I find most striking about Hemingway's portrayal of Pound in A
Moveable Feast is that pound is about the only person whom Hemingway
does not stab in the back. Hemingway paints humiliating portraits of
Stein, Ford, and Fitzgerald (each of whom probably did more directly
to help his career than Pound), but there is little nastiness toward
Pound, which I attribute (without much direct evidence) to respect
for Pound's unceasing efforts in the teens and twenties on behalf of
other writers.

Did Pound publish anything on Hemingway? Nothing much springs to my mind.

And while we're talking about Hemingway and savagery, Wyndham Lewis's
essay "The Dumb Ox" is an interesting critique of Hemingway's work.
Though laced with Lewis's own brand of vitriol (and inspired, I
think, by personal animosity toward Stein), it provides an intriguing
counter-reading of the "Hemingway hero" as a valorization of
impotence. Might be worth a look.

Cheers,

Bill



At 10:15 AM -0800 1/23/01, Tim Bray wrote:
>I suppose it may be remotely possible that there are others reading
>this list who, like me, had never gotten around to Hemingway's "A
>Moveable Feast."  I just did, and it's an awfully good little book.
>A couple of very intense portraits of EP, who used to play tennis with
>EH.  The fact that they had the highest regard for each others' work
>kind of startles me.  A picture of the two of them playing tennis
>(EH says EP was good, but not who won) in Paris would have been a suitable
>icon for 20th-cent EngLit in general, had anyone ever taken it. -T

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