Hi all,
I (23M) am currently not able to stand any author but Hemingway. I can't read anything but Hemingway. Things are piling up on me fast from the possible loss of dad to moving away, being scammed large sums in a foreign country and getting betrayed by friends. I'm now depressed.
Now the only consolation I can take is from Hemingway. Especially the audiobook. He describes the stern courage I'd like to have in a brutal world that's simultaneously dreamy and romantic too. There's so much love and humanity that I envy and love to live vicariously in his description of the lost generation. His silence is the best tribute to the tragic and sorry faces of the time. His concision is the most I can bear mentally as anything more than that burdens my depressed mind.
But I try to read something else too. I am learning Spanish / German at an advanced level but most books in Spanish are just too extravagant in their vocab and description which I can't now.
I understand Hemingway is one of its kind but I just wonder if there's a Spanish or German Hemingway too. Bolaño isn't really one. Maybe Max Frisch's Homo Faber but that hits too close to home. Or do I need to resort to Hemingway translated into those languages?
by Perfect_Course_6302