The Unbearable Lightness of Being
An alternative title for this blog post is “Taste of Food and Drink in Hemingway.” However, the title of Milan Kundera’s 1984 novel captures the essence much better. Both writers’ works are characterised by lively accounts of sensory experiences – the taste of wine and good food, the experience of a sunset across a city, […]
Thank you Ernest Hemingway!
An earlier post, Pied Beauty, touched on the sensory experience of language. Good writing lies in the authors’ ability to make the reader see, hear, taste, touch and feel. Unlike logic and rhetoric, the power of story is in its ability to make us feel, and so, to remember. One such writer who has a genius […]