- Title
- "A Man Can Be Destroyed but Not Defeated": Ernest Hemingway s Near-Death Experience and Declining Health
- Author/Creator
- Sebastian Dieguez
- Publication Details
- Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists/Part 3, pp.174-206
- Annotation
- Examination of Hemingway s declining health in relation to his writing. Details the various psychological disorders that could explain some of his characteristically extreme behaviors. Dieguez also explores the impact of his World War I wounding and later hemochromatosis on his health, and in turn, on his writing. Concludes with a discussion of the therapeutic value of writing for Hemingway. Frequent, though brief, references to A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, The Sun Also Rises, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015132244403691
Book chapter
"A Man Can Be Destroyed but Not Defeated": Ernest Hemingway s Near-Death Experience and Declining Health
Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists/Part 3, pp.174-206
2010
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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