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The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway |
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Charles Fenton This book is a definition of the process by which Ernest Hemingway transposed a conventional talent into an artistic skill. It is based on the premise that his extraordinary position -"Hemingway is the bronze god of the whole contemporary literacy experience in America," said Alfred Kazin in 1942- warrants close investigation of a period that lasted no more than half a dozen years. The years of Hemingway's late adolescence and early manhood, between 1916 and 1924, were the years when he acquired not only his basic attitudes as a man and an artist, but in many instances the material of his early fiction. This book throws a clear light on that formative period, dealing with Hemingway's formal education, cub reporting and combat in the First World War. The picture it gives of a major writer in the making is deeply revealing. ISBN 1-870495-06-3 £16.95 |
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