- Title
- A Clean Well-Lighted Place
- Author/Creator
- Alberto Lena
- Publication Details
- Reading Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing: Glossary and Commentary, pp.33-48
- Annotation
- Annotates and comments, often line by line, on familiar and obscure details and allusions to the people, places, things, events, and other references found in the story. Opens with a discussion of the story's composition history and cultural context before moving into an explication beginning with the title and closing with the story's final lines on the old waiter's stoic triumph over the darkness of despair. Covers topics such as the symbolism of the old gentleman and the quiet caf , connections to Spanish painter Francisco de Goya's life and art, and ambiguity of the waiters' dialogue.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136373003691
Book chapter
A Clean Well-Lighted Place
Reading Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing: Glossary and Commentary, pp.33-48
2021
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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