Santiago, Scheherazade, and Somebody: Storytelling from Hemingway to Barth

Journal article

Steven Scott

Mattoid, Vol.55, pp.74-88

2006

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Title: Santiago, Scheherazade, and Somebody: Storytelling from Hemingway to Barth
Author/Creator: Steven Scott
Publication Details: Mattoid, Vol.55, pp.74-88
Annotation: Reads The Old Man and the Sea as a modernist experiment bridging the gap between modernism and postmodernism. Suggests Scheherazade s fifth tale of Sinbad from The Thousand Nights and One Night as source for the novel, noting numerous similarities including the title. Closes with a discussion of John Barth s use of the travels of Sinbad in his novel The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991) but argues that while the general reader need not be aware of the source when reading The Old Man and the Sea, knowledge of the voyages of Sinbad is essential when reading Barth s version because he retells and interprets the original tale.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015130838303691