- Title
- Rereading Down There on a Visit: The Christopher Who Was Encounters the Christopher Who Might Have Been
- Author/Creator
- Carola M. Kaplan
- Publication Details
- Isherwood in Transit, pp.143-153
- Annotation
- Considers the influence of The Sun Also Rises on Christopher Isherwood's composition of a semi-autobiographical series of vignettes, Down There on a Visit (1959). Notes how Isherwood admired Hemingway's characters and sought to emulate them in his novel, or at least said as much in his own diary. Explores how he crafted "anti-heroic" heroes in order to counter the code-hero ways of manhood in Hemingway's works, and how "Hemingway and Isherwood responded to their postwar malaise in diametrically opposed ways." Continues with a deep reading of Isherwood's novel.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015130981603691
Book chapter
Rereading Down There on a Visit: The Christopher Who Was Encounters the Christopher Who Might Have Been
Isherwood in Transit, pp.143-153
2020
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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