Title
Dirty, White Candles: Ernest Hemingway’s Encounter with the East
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Analyzes Hemingway’s 1922 three-week journalistic assignment in Constantinople resulting in his negative reportage and literary depictions of the area. Focuses on recurring themes of degradation, resignation, and moral corruption, suggesting that Hemingway might have projected his own conflicted feelings about morality onto the city.
Published in
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
Volume
54
Issue
4
Date
Winter 2012
Pages
494-504
COinS
Citation
Kenne, Mel. “Dirty, White Candles: Ernest Hemingway’s Encounter with the East.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 54, no. 4 (Winter 2012): 494-504.