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Art Matters [44.213.99.37] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 15:00 GMT) Art Matters Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story Robert Paul Lamb Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge [44.213.99.37] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 15:00 GMT) Published by Louisiana State University Press Copyright © 2010 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing Designer: Laura Roubique Gleason Typefaces: Minion Pro, Fournier MT Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lamb, Robert Paul, 1951– Art matters : Hemingway, craft, and the creation of the modern short story / Robert Paul Lamb. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8071-3550-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961—Technique. 2. Short story. I. Title. PS3515.E37Z6885 2010 813'.52—dc22 2009020219 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. ∞ For the Sundance Kid the better craftsman, there at my side from the start of so many journeys. Next time, seriously dude, Australia. [44.213.99.37] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 15:00 GMT) In your own art, bow your head over technique. Think of technique when you rise and when you go to bed. Forget purposes in the meanwhile; get to love technical processes; to glory in technical successes; get to see the world entirely through technical spectacles, to see it entirely in terms of what you can do. Then when you have anything to say, the language will be apt and copious. —Robert Louis Stevenson, Learning to Write Try to become a craftsman . . . A certain degree of craftsmanship is really indispensable . You can not always sit and wait for inspiration. —Anton Chekhov, quoted in Bunin, Memories and Portraits La peinture, comme tout art, comporte une technique, une manipulation d’ouvrier, mais la justesse d’un ton et l’heureuse combinaison des effets dépendent uniquement du choix de l’artiste. [Painting, like every art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling, but the accuracy of tone and the fortunate combination of effects depend solely on the artist ’s decisions.] —Paul Cézanne, quoted in Léo Larguier, Le Dimanche avec Paul Cézanne (Souvenirs), translation mine Look how it is at the start—all juice and kick to the writer and cant convey anything to the reader—you use up the juice and the kick goes but you learn how to do it and the stuff when you are no longer young is better than the young stuff— —Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1929), Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters It is necessary from time to time to emphasize the fact that writing in general and imaginative writing in particular are the products of craftsmanship. In the middle ages a craft was called a mystery. It is a good word, for it is a mystery why we write and a mystery how great writers do it. They do it by observing certain rules—or after having observed certain rules for a long time, by jumping off from them. —Ford Madox Ford, “Techniques” Art is nothing if it is not control. But we control only those of our acts whose outcome we foresee; and we foresee no result unless we have been over the ground before . It is technique, therefore, that gives direction to impulse and marks the difference between art and caprice. —Arnold Isenberg, “The Technical Factor in Art” It is the integrity of [Hemingway’s] craft, a richness beyond legend, that will forever endure. —Henry Louis Gates Jr., quoted in Thomas Putnam, “Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath” [44.213.99.37] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 15:00 GMT) ...