Title
Ernest Hemingway: The Life as Fiction and the Fiction as Life
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Decries critics who discount the importance of imagination in favor of a limited biographical vision of Hemingway’s work. Questions the common critical view that Hemingway’s writings are merely an extension of his life. Rather, Benson sees the author’s life as providing the material for his imagination and the creative act of writing. Passing references to The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast, and others.
Published in
American Literature
Volume
61
Issue
3
Date
1989
Pages
345-358
COinS
Citation
Benson, Jackson J. “Ernest Hemingway: The Life as Fiction and the Fiction as Life.” American Literature 61, no. 3 (Oct.1989): 345-58.