Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels

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Rose Marie Burwell

1996

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Title: Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels
Author/Creator: Rose Marie Burwell
Annotation: Critical biography arguing that Hemingway s four posthumous works, A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, and the African journal, form a tetralogy of his vision of the artist as writer and painter, and as son, husband and father but that their publication history obscured their connection. Examines Hemingway s focus on the life of the artist from childhood through middle age and use of memory, paired painter/writer character relationships, and thematic concern with the artist s growth and decline over time. Argues that Hemingway s distance from his fictional artists diminished in these later works, demonstrating the author s own anxieties and fears. Asserts that despite his difficulties in completing the four works, Hemingway did intend them to be published after his death. Burwell devotes a chapter to each of the posthumous works, with the greatest attention given to Islands in the Stream. Extensive endnotes.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book
Record Identifier: 991015130714403691