о рассказе Хемингуэя

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Хемингуэй написал рассказ из шести слов:

For sale: baby shoes, never used.

Blackbook предложил современникам ту же задачу. Никто и близко не подошел. Самые убедительные, пожалуй, Апдайк -- Fogive me! What for? Never mind. и Каннингем -- My nemesis is dead. Now what? Прочее же... Ни Мейлер (Satan — Jehovah — 15 rounds. A draw), ни Уэлш (Eyeballed me, killed him. Slight exaggeration) даже не пытаются сделать так, чтобы читатель угадывал роман за пределами этих шести слов. Там так и остается всего содержания -- эти самые шесть слов -- не больше. Вишневский и то справлялся лучше -- впрочем, узкому специалисту положено.

... ERNEST Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” It’s rumored that Hemingway thought it was his greatest work, and it’s invariably offered as the standard to which micro-fiction should aspire. Stirred by the mini-masterpiece, BlackBook magazine asked 25 of today’s writers to offer their own original six-word story. Some produced more than 10 narratives in less than an hour’s time, while others took weeks to labor over a single half-dozen word-set. Among the submissions were

John Updike: “Forgive me!” “What for?” “Never mind.”

From Irvine (“Trainspotting”) Welsh: “Eyeballed me, killed him. Slight exaggeration.”

Norman Mailer: “Satan - Jehovah - 15 rounds. A draw.”

Rick Moody: “Grass, cow, calf, milk, cheese, France.”

Tobias Wolff: “She gave. He took. He forgot.”

Michael Cunningham: “My nemesis is dead. Now what?”

And Jerry Stahl: “You are not sh - - . You are!” ...

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