Title
Hemingway and His Critics
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Review of The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories, assessing the play as inferior because it is written by “Hemingway the man”; the stories, however, are excellent because they are the products of “Hemingway the artist.” Contends that The Fifth Column and To Have and Have Not’s reliance on first-person narration leads to disaster. Trilling also discusses the place “critical tradition” holds in Hemingway’s career. Previously published in Partisan Review 6 (Winter 1939): 52-60, and elsewhere.
Published in
The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
Date
2000
Pages
11-20
COinS
Citation
Trilling, Lionel. “Hemingway and His Critics.” In The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays, edited by Lionel Trilling and Leon Wieseltier, 11-20. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000.