In fifth year of English Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, a brilliant professor shocked me when he said in class that Hemingway was "a despicable man." I love this writer very much so, after class, I went to see him and I said that "despicable" is a very strong word. The scholar softened a bit, but insisted that Hemingway had a reputation of being a male-chauvinist. I later remembered an article from GQ magazine which said that allegedly Hemingway mistreated the women ...
