Ben Stoltzfus (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "The Old Man and the Sea: A Lacanian Reading," in Hemingway: Essays of Reassessment, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 190-99.
[In the following excerpt, Stoltzfus presents a semiotic reading, based on the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, of the central words in The Old Man and the Sea, which, he contends, provide insight into Hemingway's conscious narrative as well as both Santiago's and Hemingway's unconscious desires.]
If the narrative level of The Old Man and the...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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