HEMINGWAY AND COMPANY
| Autor: | Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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| Zdroj: | Canadian Review of American Studies. 18:383-392 |
| ISSN: | 1710-114X 0007-7720 |
| Popis: | Michael Reynolds. The Young Hemingway. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. 291 pp. Bernice Kert. The Hemingway Women: Those Who Loved Him, the Wives, and Others. New York: Norton, 1986. 555 pp. Mus. Anthony Burgess. Ernest Hemingway and his World. New York: Scribner's, 1985. 128 pp. Ilius. William White, ed. Ernest Hemingway, Dateline: Toronto. New York: Scribner's, 1985. xxxix 478 pp. Ernest Hemingway. The Garden of Eden. New York: Scribner's, 1986. 247 pp. Michael Reynolds's The Young Hemingway is an outstanding book, easily read, and extremely well-researched. Reynolds uses almost exclusively primary sources (published and unpublished correspondence and manuscripts, medical examiner's files, probated wills, etc.), does not take facts or others' statements for granted, and, as a result, has written a refreshing and informative book that dispels rather than furthers hackneyed and often inaccurate myths about the Hemingway legend. In fact, some of the questions that had more or less consciously arisen for a Hemingway scholar such as I from a reading of Heming- way's letters, whether published or unpublished, and of the letters of his family, find their answers in The Young Hemingway. Among the many interesting points made by the book, I found particularly enlightening the information concerning the heredity predisposition to suicide in the Hemingway family, the redefinition of the Hemingway family's inter-relationships, the revelation of Hemingway's passive-aggressive relationships with women, his use of sickness to gain atten- tion, and the final dispelling of the myth concerning Hemingway's poverty in Paris during his first marriage. In this biography, which covers Hemingway's early life until December 1921, when Hemingway and Hadley boarded the S.S. Leopoldina en route to France, Reynolds illuminates through the use of flashbacks and flashforwards Hemingway's first twenty-one years in an amusing and affec- tionate way. |
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