The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway | Kenneth G. Johnston (essay date 1988)
Kenneth G. Johnston (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "The Silly Wasters: Tzara and the Poet in 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'," in The Hemingway Review, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Fall, 1988, pp. 50-6.
[In the following essay, Johnston discusses Hemingway's treatment of Dadaism—particularly its most important figure Tristan Tzara—in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."]
When Ernest Hemingway arrived in Paris at the end of 1921 to launch his writing career, another expatriate, Tristan Tzara, was already there making a circus of the literary scene. It would be hard to imagine two more disparate artists: the quiet, unknown American, shy and serious, totally dedicated to his craft, slowly and meticulously shaping his "true sentences" in the solitude of a rented room; the brash, notorious Romanian, bold and mischievous, totally dedicated to the demolition of traditional art and literature, chanting his Dada sense and nonsense in the streets and at public...
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