"Hemingway was here": The Use and Abuse of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in Slovenia's National Imagination

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Gregor Kranjc

Hemingway Review, Vol.45(1), pp.47-68

2025

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Title: "Hemingway was here": The Use and Abuse of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in Slovenia's National Imagination
Author/Creator: Gregor Kranjc
Publication Details: Hemingway Review, Vol.45(1), pp.47-68
Annotation: This essay explores the enduring Slovene fascination with Hemingway's famous war novel A Farewell to Arms, and its contemporary cultural and economic exploitation. While depicting the Great War's Isonzo/Soča front, a large part of which is in present-day Slovenia, Hemingway never mentioned the Slovenes by name, nor did he use Slovene placenames. The article contextualizes this apparent disconnect within contested Sloven memories of World War I and the Isonzo/Soča battlefields, the invisibleness of "smaller" nationalities such as the Slovenes, as well as the lucrative cachet of Hemingway's name and novel in the Slovene local economy.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015417422203691