Hemingway: The 1930’s (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Reynolds
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1929-1939
- Setting: Key West, Florida; New York City; Spain; and Kenya
- Principal Characters: Ernest Hemingway, Pauline Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Gertrude Stein, Maxwell Perkins
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, United States or Americans, Parents and children, France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Authors or writers, Literature, 1940’s, Writing, Paris, 1920’s, 1930’s, Novelists, England or English people, Fathers, Criticism, Divorce, Creative process, Jazz music, World War I, Depression, mental, Fame, Drinking or drunkenness, Cuba or Cubans, Letters, Italy or Italians, Germany or German people, Fishing or fishermen, Spain or Spanish people, Bullfighting or bullfighters
- Locales: New York, NY, Spain, Key West, FL, Kenya
The classical scholar Sir Ronald Syme so immersed himself in the works of Cornelius Tacitus that many critics felt his prose style came to resemble that of the Latin author. When Syme’s Tacitus was released in 1979, critics joked: “What is the difference between the style of Tacitus and the style of Tacitus’ Annals?”; to which the answer was: “No difference at all. They are precisely the Syme.”
Imitating the style of their subjects must be a great temptation for literary biographers. In Michael Reynolds’s Hemingway: The 1930’s,...
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