- Title
- Hemingway s Influence on Camus: The Iceberg as Topography
- Author/Creator
- Ben Stoltzfus
- Publication Details
- A Writer’s Topography: Space and Place in the Life and Works of Albert Camus, pp.169-182
- Annotation
- Discusses the influence of Hemingway s theory of omission on Camus s first novel, L tranger (1942), drawing on numerous stylistic connections with The Sun Also Rises. Stoltzfus argues that ideas of the absurd, alienation, and death found in Camus s earlier philosophical Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) constitute the iceberg s seven-eighths while the tip is found in the compressed descriptions of landscape and character behavior of his complementary L tranger. Concludes that in his adoption of Hemingway s style, Camus successfully conveys the feelings and state of mind of his protagonist, Meursault.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015132125403691
Book chapter
Hemingway s Influence on Camus: The Iceberg as Topography
A Writer’s Topography: Space and Place in the Life and Works of Albert Camus, pp.169-182
2015
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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