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Date: 2017-01-10 09:12 pm (UTC)Well, and THIS gets me onto one of my favourite subjects, the deindividuation/overidentifications with groups/lack of boundaries in American culture – but I'm not allowed to talk about it more until I find that article that lays it out so much better than I can!
Despite my teacher's best efforts, I actually liked Steinbeck, a bit, so I can identify. I'd love to be able to read Hugo in French someday but making slow progress there, alas...
The only thing that has ever saved Hemingway for me (something I never thought possible) was Midnight in Paris. Apparently Woody Allen told Tom Hardy, who played Hemingway, not to look up any biographical detail about him, just create a performance based on the impression he got of the man through his work ... and it's amazing. I still don't think I could get through a whole book of his, but I find him much less unpalatable when I can imagine his writing being read as Hardy-Hemingway.