Hemingwayesque
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Hemingwayesque (comparative more Hemingwayesque, superlative most Hemingwayesque)
- Reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist, or the understated quality of his prose or the themes he wrote about, including war, wilderness, love, and loss.
- 1982 December 25, Neil Miller, “Making Things Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 6:
- White contrasted the spare, "chastened" Hemingwayesque school of straight writing with gay writers like Proust (and Edmund White too) who were "free to indulge in ornament."