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Review of - Hemingway and the Mechanism of Fame: Statements, Public Letters, Introductions, Forewords, Prefaces, Blurbs, Reviews, and Endorsements by Matthew Bruccoli
The Hemingway review, Vol.25(2), pp.146-149
Spring 2006
Abstract
There are some pieces missing that would have added to its construction of the Hemingway persona, such as his review of Gertrude Stein's Geography and Plays, published in the Paris Tribune in 1923, or his recipe for a "Death in the Afternoon Cocktail" in So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon, Sterling North and Carl Kroch's 1935 cocktail book by thirty "leading authors" (Hemingway's recipe, together with a wonderful caricature, appears first). More troubling are these snarky statements in the introduction: "Hemingway's work has withstood the depredations of political correctness, feminism, deconstruction, and postmodernism" (xvii, emphasis added) and "Hemingway may have damaged the profession of authorship by providing readers with a distorted model for how writers were supposed to live and work: writers who didn't emulate Hemingway were regarded as minor figures or hobbyists or sissies" (xvii).
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- Title
- Review of - Hemingway and the Mechanism of Fame: Statements, Public Letters, Introductions, Forewords, Prefaces, Blurbs, Reviews, and Endorsements by Matthew Bruccoli
- Publication Details
- The Hemingway review, Vol.25(2), pp.146-149
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publisher
- University of Idaho Department of English; Moscow
- Copyright
- © 2006 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation
- Identifiers
- 99381900685806600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; English
- Language
- English