GUEST OPINION / By Gene Seymour, CNN
Gene Seymour is a critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. Follow him on Twitter @GeneSeymour. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
The widespread yet varying attention drawn by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's "Hemingway" documentary series -- which ran its course on PBS early this month -- proves, if nothing else, that its subject still lingers in the world's collective consciousness almost a century after his first books were first published.
While Ernest Hemingway may no longer dominate the literary scene as he had by the middle of the 20th century, the mystique of his public and private lives resonates into the 21st. The most mysterious question is: Why do we still care about him?
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Here is a recording by Hemingway of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. CLICK HERE.
He did not attend the ceremonies,
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