The Torrents of Spring
by Ernest Hemingway
A funny parody of the Chicago literary school. Joking about this "great race" of writers, he portrays a fashion that Hemingway himself refuses to follow. In style and content, it is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter – but during the narrative, other literary tendencies associated with American and British writers similar to Anderson – such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce and John Dos Passos – come for satirical commentary. An extremely interesting story, The Torrents of Spring offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway's early career as a storyteller and stylist.
