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About 'sherlock holmes mysteries'|Peeling the Onion: The Continuing Mystery of Sherlock Holmes, H.P. Lovecraft, and Twin Peaks








Robert               Carver               himself               admitted               to               being               heavily               influenced               by               Ernest               Hemingway's               approach               to               writing               in               which               what               isn't               said               is               perhaps               even               more               important               that               what               is               said.

Hemingway               referred               to               this               style               as               an               "iceberg"               approach               because               the               reader               is               only               getting               a               small               portion               of               a               much               bigger               picture.

(Of               course,               another               way               to               look               at               it               is               from               the               perspective               of               being               too               lazy               or               uncreative               to               write               a               whole               story               so               you               pawn               responsibility               off               on               your               readers,               but               that's               just               my               take               on               the               chore               that               it               is               reading               Ernest               Hemingway.)               Regardless,               it               is,               of               course,               a               dangerous               aesthetic               on               which               to               hang               understanding               of               your               literary               endeavor,               assuming               as               it               does               that               an               audience               will               be               capable               of               connecting               points               that               are               not               explicitly               laid               out,               though               that               danger               may               have               been               less               pronounced               when               Hemingway               and               Carver               were               actually               writing               than               it               is               today               with               the               average               reader               raised               on               the               television               aesthetic               of               having               everything               carefully               explained               to               them.
               The               frustration               level               for               many               readers               who               pick               up               a               story               by               Carver               or               Hemingway               is               ironic               in               that               the               language               is               often               far               more               accessible               than               that               of               other               writers.

The               frustration               therefore               comes               not               from               the               heightened               level               of               language,               but               from               the               fact               that               so               little               information               seems               to               be               given.

The               minimalist               approach               can               best               be               characterized               as               a               style               that               devoutly               subscribes               to               the               concept               that               less               is               more.

That               is               a               phrase               that               is               casually               tossed               around               when               speaking               on               a               variety               of               media,               from               stage               productions               to               television               commercials.

But               what               does               "less               is               more"               really               mean               when               applied               to               literature?

Certainly,               one               can               make               a               case               that               one               of               the               appeals               the               great               Russian               novelists               or               Charles               Dickens               is               that               they               provide               such               a               wealth               of               dense               information               that               they               essentially               paint               a               picture               in               the               mind               not               unlike               a               movie.

When               most               19th               century               writers               describe               a               room,               the               average               person               can               probably               imagine               it               almost               as               fully               as               any               set               designer               in               Hollywood.

The               image               that               most               people               have               of               Victorian               London               can               be               traced               back               to               the               lush               descriptions               of               Dickens               and               Arthur               Conan               Doyle's               Sherlock               Holmes               mysteries.

One               may               well               question,               then,               the               point               of               minimalist               technique.
               Beyond               the               familiar               phrase               "less               is               more",               of               course,               minimalist               technique               can               be               characterized               by               a               desire               for               economy               in               word               choice               where               brevity               is               the               greatest               accomplishment               and               verbosity               must               be               avoided               at               all               cost.

The               idea               is               really               to               provide               just               as               much               information               to               the               reader               as               is               necessary               and               then               to               invite               him               to               become               an               active               partner               in               the               comprehending               what               is               really               happening.

Ernest               Hemingway               is               typically               granted               the               status               as               progenitor               of               this               approach,               and               if               he               wasn't               the               first               then               he               was               certainly               the               most               famous.

But               just               as               form               followed               function               for               Dickens               and               Doyle               who               had               to               pad               out               their               stories               as               a               result               of               their               being               serialized               in               magazines               over               a               period               of               time,               so               was               Hemingway's               adoption               of               his               iceberg               technique               related               to               his               formative               career               as               a               journalist.

A               newspaper               writer               has               little               choice               but               to               find               a               terse               way               of               writing               and               Hemingway               adopted               and               transmitted               this               style               into               his               fiction.

Also               figuring               prominently               in               his               adoption               of               this               technique               was               invention               of               the               movie               camera.

With               the               ability               to               film               things               that               most               people               had               never               seen               before,               there               was               no               longer               the               need               to               describe               in               the               great               detail               of               the               19th               century               novelists.

By               the               time               Ernest               Hemingway               began               writing,               a               massive               shift               in               the               aesthetic               sensibilities               of               readers               had               already               taken               place.

He               could               write               a               story               that               took               place               in               Africa               or               Europe               secure               in               the               knowledge               that               readers               were               no               longer               dependent               upon               excessive               descriptions               to               form               a               mental               image.
               By               the               time               Hemingway               wrote               "Hills               Like               White               Elephants"               he               had               jettisoned               any               journalistic               reasons               for               writing               in               a               minimalist               style               and               had               fully               adopted               it               for               literary               reasons.

This               story               is               the               ultimate               testimony               to               the               trust               that               writers               of               minimalist               fiction               give               to               their               readers;               almost               nothing               that               is               truly               important               to               the               story               is               actually               said.

Hemingway's               approach               to               minimalist               fiction               is               here               cemented               in               his               insistence               to               avoid               explanations.

And               that               technique               of               avoidance               finds               voice               in               the               character               of               Jig               who               is               as               stubborn               in               her               refusal               to               discuss               the               issue               of               the               abortion               as               is               Hemingway's               refusal               to               be               more               explicit.

The               subject               of               the               story               also               lends               itself               to               the               iceberg               technique               as               a               story               about               an               unmarried               woman               having               an               abortion               probably               could               not               have               been               successfully               published               unless               it               was               elliptically               done.

That,               in               fact,               is               one               of               the               stark               differences               between               Hemingway               and               Robert               Carver.

Robert               Carver's               minimalist               technique               was               entirely               by               choice;               Hemingway               to               a               certain               extent               had               it               thrust               upon               him.
               In               addition               to               certain               impositions               of               censorship               to               which               Ernest               Hemingway's               minimalist               technique               owes               a               great               deal,               another               key               element               that               shaped               his               writing               were               the               themes               inherent               in               the               Modernist               movement.

The               ideas               of               disillusionment,               alienation               and               the               confusion               of               a               rapidly               changing               world               are               expressed               in               "Hills               Like               White               Elephants"               in               the               inability               of               the               man               and               woman               to               effectively               communicate               or               fully               understand               their               predicament.

The               pregnancy               that               forever               changes               the               relationship               between               the               man               and               the               woman               reflects               the               modernity               of               20th               century               society               in               which               events               unfold               at               a               faster               pace               and               disaster               can               always               be               waiting               around               the               corner.

Hemingway's               prose               is               stark,               reflecting               the               inability               of               modern               man               to               fully               comprehend               the               changes               taking               place               around               him.

And               the               devastation               of               the               relationship               based               on               the               surprise               pregnancy               and               the               characters'               confusion               over               how               to               deal               with               is               reflected               in               the               terse               narration               that               almost               seems               to               be               more               an               effect               of               not               knowing               how               to               write               about               it               than               a               literary               choice.
               Raymond               Carver               did               not               come               out               of               the               Modernist               movement               and               the               alienation               he               writes               about               is               not               one               of               geographic               expatriation               in               a               futile               attempt               to               connect,               but               instead               reflects               the               feeling               of               America               following               a               second               World               War.

Unlike               Hemingway's               characters               who               are               mostly               emigrants               from               America,               Carver's               characters               are               situated               in               a               society               that               has               discovered               itself               to               be               suddenly               the               most               important               country               in               the               world.

Robert               Carver's               characters               relate               to               America               in               an               entirely               different               way               than               Hemingway's;               no               longer               bound               by               censorship,               their               foibles               and               failings               can               be               expressed               on               the               surface.

However,               just               because               his               characters               may               be               able               to               talk               about               such               things               as               abortions,               that               doesn't               necessarily               mean               that               they               will.

If               Ernest               Hemingway               chose               not               to               specifically               address               specific               issues               in               his               stories               partially               out               of               societal               conventions,               when               Raymond               Carver's               characters               dance               around               an               issue               it               is               wholly               because               he               wants               it               that               way.

An               excellent               example               of               the               differences               between               Hemingway               and               Carver               can               be               found               in               "What               We               Talk               About               When               We               Talk               About               Love."               Although               alcohol               consumption               certainly               plays               a               significant               part               in               the               development               of               relationships               between               men               and               women               in               Hemingway's               stories,               the               specter               of               alcoholism               never               as               explicitly               delineated               as               in               Carver's               tale.

The               story               begins               almost               innocently,               with               four               sober               people               discussing               the               meaning               of               love               and               ends               with               four               alcoholics               revealing               an               utter               inability               to               communicate               or               connect               in               any               meaningful               way.

However,               Carver's               technique               is               quite               similar               to               Hemingway's               in               that               avoids               overwriting               this               conversion               from               sobriety               to               drunkenness.

That               Carver               has               the               advantage               of               being               able               to               write               openly               about               issues               that               Hemingway               couldn't,               and               that               he               consciously               withheld               himself               from               taking               that               advantage,               can               be               seen               in               the               story               "Viewfinder."               This               story               is               an               excellent               example               of               how               Carver               engages               the               minimalist               approach               not               out               of               necessity               but               purely               for               artistic               reasons;               it               is               indicative               of               his               choice               to               highlight               his               theme               through               dissociative               techniques               that               throw               relief               on               the               psychology               of               characters               by               throwing               them               into               situations               with               other               characters               that               force               them               to               confront               their               own               failings.
               This               technique               provides               another               contrast               between               Hemingway               and               Carver;               where               Hemingway's               prose               represents               the               struggle               for               communication               that               all               too               often               ends               up               in               miscommunication,               Carver's               bare               bones               approach               represents               the               difficulty               that               language               often               presents               in               allowing               people               to               better               understand               each               other.

The               minimalist               techniques               employed               by               Ernest               Hemingway               and               Robert               Carver               share               the               similarity               of               taking               the               less               is               more               approach               to               writing.

But               the               manner               of               execution               is               often               in               stark               contrast.






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