The Torrents of Spring | The Torrents of Spring

At a glance:

Author: Ernest Hemingway
First Published: 1926
Type of Plot: Farcical parody
Time of Work: The early 1920’s
Setting: Rural Michigan
Principal Characters: Yogi Johnson, Scripps O’Neil, Diana, Mandy, Two Indians
Genres: Long fiction, Farce, Parody
Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Literature, Midwest, 1920’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Wit or humor, Small-town life, Michigan
Locales: Michigan

The Novel

The Torrents of Spring is a short parody of Sherwood Anderson’s novel Dark Laughter (1925) and a satire of literary manners and morals in the 1920’s. As such, it is not an extremely important work, but as the second published book—after the stories of In Our Time (1924, 1925)—by a major American writer, the novella has biographical and historical interest. To be enjoyed, however, it must be read first for its nonsense and humor.

For such a short work, The Torrents of Spring is surprisingly complex—an indication of its...

The Torrents of Spring | The Torrents of Spring

At a glance:

The Novel

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