Idiocy of tone
"Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms did a few nice descriptions, but his book, too, is a work of ambition, in which can be seen the beginning of the careful, artful, immaculate idiocy of tone that since has marked both his prose and his legend as he has declined into that sort of fame which, at moments I hope are weak, Mailer stems to crave." (Gore Vidal.)
What is "careful, artful, immaculate idiocy of tone" in that Vidal's observation?
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Vidal apparently does not like Hemingway and thinks his writing is merely affected, carefully crafted to seem artful in its simplicity ("immaculate idiocy of tone").
- Vidal apparently does not like Hemingway and thinks his writing is merely affected, carefully crafted to seem artful in its simplicity ("immaculate idiocy of tone").
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Vidal apparently does not like Hemingway and thinks his writing is merely affected, carefully crafted to seem artful in its simplicity ("immaculate idiocy of tone").
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