Title
Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa and Rilke’s The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke: Tentative Reflections
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Comparison study speculating on why Hemingway responded so positively to Rilke’s minor work, the Cornet (1906), in Green Hills of Africa. Concludes that both texts share several commonalities, including experimental characterization and themes of creative pursuit and memory reconstruction.
Published in
Germanic Notes and Reviews
Volume
24
Issue
2
Date
1993
Pages
68-71
COinS
Citation
Saalmann, Dieter. “Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa and Rilke’s The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke: Tentative Reflections.” Germanic Notes and Reviews 24, no. 2 (1993): 68-71.