- Title
- Beating Mr. Turgenev: "The Execution of Tropmann" and Hemingway s Aesthetic of Witness
- Author/Creator
- Mark Cirino
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.30(1), pp.31-50
- Annotation
- Explores the artist s responsibility to observe and depict death, comparing Hemingway s themes with those in Turgenev s 1870 essay. Argues that although Hemingway enjoyed Turgenev s work, his treatment of death more closely aligns with that of Fyodor Dostoevsky, who mocked Turgenev for diverting his gaze during an execution. Through a close examination of passages from Indian Camp, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and Death in the Afternoon, Cirino demonstrates the author s belief that violent death must be witnessed to be authentically represented.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132294903691
Journal article
Beating Mr. Turgenev: "The Execution of Tropmann" and Hemingway s Aesthetic of Witness
Hemingway Review, Vol.30(1), pp.31-50
10/01/2010
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