- Title
- Afterlife: The Strange Fate of Literary Remains
- Author/Creator
- David Wyatt
- Annotation
- In a book examining posthumous publications and the making and editing of literary reputations from Wiliam Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, Wyatt isolates the Hemingway books published after his death in 1961. Contrary to general understanding, he argues in the chapter “‘Have Sure Tried’: Hemingway’s Unflattering Career,” Hemingway was hugely productive in the last decade after publication of The Old Man and the Sea. Though the titles were in various stages of completion, A Moveable Feast, the abridged The Gardn of Eden, True at First Light (eventually Under Kilimanjaro), and Islands in the Stream provide opportunities for the author to explore themes throughout Hemingway’s work such as sex (see, for example, Wyatt’s thread involving the word “bed”) and Hemingway’s exposing “himself to a hunger of memory that reveals how difficult it is to want what we have.”
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press; Baton Rouge
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book
- Record Identifier
- 991015417422303691
Book
Afterlife: The Strange Fate of Literary Remains
Louisiana State University Press
2025
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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