That Summer in Paris (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Morley Callaghan
- First Published: 1963
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, Exile or expatriates, Friendship, Paris, Novelists, Canada or Canadians, Boxing, Catholics or Catholic Church
The Work
That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Some Others, by Canadian writer Morley Callaghan, recounts his friendships with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway in Paris in 1929. Callaghan attempts to define his cultural and religious identity and to demonstrate how all writers influence one another.
As a young college student and newspaper reporter in Toronto, Callaghan recognizes that his native city is fundamentally British. He is “intensely North American” because of his love for baseball, women, and...
[The entire page is 515 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
See Also
