From the NY SUN:
"In Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon," he remarks that his
wife is reading Hammett's "The Dain Curse," adding that it's
his "bloodiest yet" ("The Dain Curse" was Hammett's second
novel). In Hammett's "The Main Death," his detective, the
Continental Op, notices that a witness is reading "The Sun
Also Rises."
http://www.nysun.com/article/9177
page 2
So it looks like it was mutual
Terry
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dick Lochte"
<dlochte@...> wrote:
>
> Patrick King wrote:
>
> >Hemingway cited Hammett as an influence on his
sparse,
> >discriptive sentence structure. It may be in
A
> >MOVEABLE FEAST, but Hemingway's specific quote
on
> >Hammett is not hard to find.
>
> To which Brian Thornton replied:
>
> Show, don't tell, Patrick. If it's so easy to find,
please show it
to us.
> I've read A MOVEABLE FEAST twice and I don't recall
any specific
reference
> along those lines at all. I suppose it's possible
that I missed it, but
> being the big Hammett fan that I am, I doubt I'd
have missed a reference
> like that one.
>
>
> The only reference I recall is in one of the last of
the posthumously
> published Hemingways, probably True at First Light.
The author and
one of
> his wives are on safari and, at his request, she
reads Hammett to him by
> firelight. I do not recall any specific comment on
the quality of
the work
> or its influence, but the assumption is that he
liked it.
>
> Dick Lochte
>
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