The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Hemingway’s Influence on Camus: The Iceberg as Topography

Author

Ben Stoltzfus

Document Type

Essay

Citation

Stoltzfus, Ben. “Hemingway’s Influence on Camus: The Iceberg as Topography.” In A Writer’s Topography: Space and Place in the Life and Works of Albert Camus, edited by Jason Herbeck and Vincent Grégoire, 169-82. Leiden/Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2015.

Annotation

Discusses the influence of Hemingway’s theory of omission on Camus’s first novel, L‘Étranger (1942), drawing on numerous stylistic connections with The Sun Also Rises. Stoltzfus argues that ideas of the absurd, alienation, and death found in Camus’s earlier philosophical Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) constitute the iceberg’s seven-eighths while the tip is found in the compressed descriptions of landscape and character behavior of his complementary L‘Étranger. Concludes that in his adoption of Hemingway’s style, Camus successfully conveys the feelings and state of mind of his protagonist, Meursault.

Published in

A Writer’s Topography: Space and Place in the Life and Works of Albert Camus

Date

2015

Pages

169-182

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