Men Without Women

Ernest Hemingway · 1927 CE · Short Story · Modern / American · Modernist

Fourteen stories set among bullfighters, boxers, soldiers and men waiting in bars and railway stations. Women are mostly offstage or leaving, and the writing keeps to surfaces: what is said, ordered and watched, with the pressure left underneath the dialogue. Grace under pressure, in the style that taught American prose to leave things out.

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• influenced by ↑ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  Mark Twain · 1884 CE · Novel
• ↓ The Stranger
  Albert Camus · 1942 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Hills Like White Elephants
  Ernest Hemingway · 1927 CE · Short Story — contained in this

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