"A Few Funny Things": Hemingway's Early Interest in Spanish History and Politics

Journal article

David Murad

Hemingway Review, Vol.44(1), pp.46-69

2024

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Title: "A Few Funny Things": Hemingway's Early Interest in Spanish History and Politics
Author/Creator: David Murad
Publication Details: Hemingway Review, Vol.44(1), pp.46-69
Annotation: Critical discourse often overlooks or devalues Hemingway's attention to Spanish history and politics prior to the mid-1930s. While early Spanish-related works, such as The Sun Also Rises or "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," are admittedly less engaged with politics than later Civil War stories, I challenge the perceptions of Hemingway's early ignorance of or disinterest in Spanish politics—sentiments too readily accepted when focusing so much on Hemingway and Spain through bullfighting. Reading his Star reporting and early correspondences alongside Spanish political history provides contextual markers that enrich the respective stories and themes—and show Hemingway as a politically-inclined, even if not always publicly political, writer.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015417572503691