The Hemingway Enigma examining how a middling writer came to be regarded as a literary genius: arturo barea spain spanish cuba floridita marcelline letters crush inferiority complex

The Hemingway Enigma examining how a middling writer came to be regarded as a literary genius

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Chapters

Preface
Introduction
Sorting the fact from the fiction
Subjectivity: is an objective judgment of a literary work possible?
Constructing ‘Papa’ Hemingway: What will it be — ‘pure artist’ or ‘national celebrity’?
Personality, mental and physical health
The writer, the journalist, the insider. the expert
‘Rules on writing’ and Hemingway’s ‘Theory of Omission’
Hemingway and ‘the truth’, a ‘truly’ odd relationship
The Sun Also Rises and the ‘lost generation’ — Part I
The Sun Also Rises and the ‘lost generation’ — Part II
The modernist writer — Part I
The modernist writer — Part II
The theology of evaluating Hemingway – Part I
The theology of evaluating Hemingway — Part II
The theology of evaluating Hemingway — Part III
Caveat lector — Part I: Enter academia
Caveat lector — Part II: ‘Proving’ the artistry
Caveat lector — Part III: The von Däniken way
Caveat lector — Part IV: Intellectual overkill
Caveat lector — Part V: The Rorschach effect
Caveat lector — Part VI: William of Occam writes
A Hemingway miscellany: first loves, the not-so-fluent linguist and a unique and touching friendship
In sum — Part I: Something of a curate's egg
In sum — Part II: At the end of the day it’s each to his own

Potted biographies

Note on these potted biographies
1899-1920 — Early life - Part I
1899-1920 — Early life - Part II
1921-1929 — Paris years, early success, first divorce and second marriage - Part I
1921-1929 — Paris years, early success, first divorce and second marriage - Part II
1921-1929 — Paris years, early success, first divorce and second marriage - Part III
1921-1929 — Paris years, early success, first divorce and second marriage - Part IV
1921-1929 — Paris years, early success, first divorce and second marriage - Part V
1929-1940 — Part I: Fame and growing wealth
1929-1940 — Part II: Becoming the legend, poor sales, affairs and depression
1929-1940 — Part III: Second divorce, third marriage and a bestseller
1940-1945 — Part I: Writing gives way to the ‘war effort’, but the fame grows though another marriage begins to fail
1940-1945 — Part II: At a loose end, lonely and depressed and his third marriage also ends
1940-1945 — Part III: Finally to war, ‘playing soldier’ and wooing wife-to-be No 4
1945-1961 — Part I: Fourth marriage, more writing, public profiles and ever growing fame
1945-1961 — Part II: Health declines, Hemingway falls in love and his new novel is mauled by the critics
1945-1961 — Part III: Fighting off the academics and redeeming his reputation a little
1945-1961 — Part IV: Cheating death in Africa, the winning the Nobel Prize and entering his anecdotage
1945-1961 — Part V: Surviving a ‘dangerous summer’ but the end comes fast

Quotes about Hemingway

Various quotes about Ernest Hemingway the man and his work

Appendices

Various commentaries, papers, interviews, dissertations and reviews on Hemingway and his work alluded to in these pages
Links to reviews, papers, essays and commentaries mentioned in various posts
List of posts
Reading list

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