... American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?


"Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes" - United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)


American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?