Flying Home and Other Stories | Literary Precedents
As a student at Tuskeegee University, Ellison read the works of those writers who most influenced young writers of the 1930s: T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, and Gertrude Stein. For Ellison, The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot, 1922) was an impetus to write, and he later described reading Hemingway's Spanish Civil War dispatches, which he admired for their style, especially their vivid descriptions of scene and action. John Callahan observes that "A Hard Time Keeping Up" is almost a reversal of the action in Hemingway's "The Killers"...
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