True Realism!

Once in a certain interview, William Faulkner said that Hemingway’s literature lacked courage. Hearing this, Hemingway got angry. Hearing of Hemingway’s anger, Faulkner got worried. His worry is quite understandable because Hemingway was notorious for quickly losing his temper and getting violent, and also unfortunately for Faulkner he was a man gigantic enough to crush a small man like Faulkner easily. But I don’t know why Faulkner said such a thing. As far as his literary field is concerned, I think, Hemingway is very courageous, even though there may be something less courageous in other fields. ‘The Sun Also Rises’ is a very courageous novel, and such a courageous novel is written only by a man who has the courage to challenge the conventional ideas of the society.
We live in a troubled world, and it is doubtless the novelist’s business to deal with it. In the days when this book was published, the future was uncertain like in any other days. People were in the grip