Title
Hemingway’s Uncanny Beginnings
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Examines how the setting and images of the opening chapter of A Farewell to Arms anticipates the novel’s doomed conclusion. Briefly draws on Freud’s theory of the uncanny to discuss Hemingway’s repressed fear of death. Excerpted from previously published Georgia Review 31, no. 2 (Summer 1977): 476-501.
Published in
Death and Dying
Date
2009
Pages
73-79
COinS
Citation
Wyatt, David. “Hemingway’s Uncanny Beginnings.” In Death and Dying, edited by Harold Bloom, 73-79. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009.