Title
Ellison's Hemingway
Document Type
Article
Annotation
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison, published in 2019, along with the essays in Shadow and Act (1964), reveal Ernest Hemingway to have been a major preoccupation for the author of Invisible Man. While Ellison did acknowledge that Hemingway once served as "the true father-as-artist of so many of us who came to writing during the late thirties," Hemingway's influence on Ellison was, however, neither simple nor direct. Instead, Hemingway allowed Ellison a way to think about "questions of influence": about technique, about producing emotion, and, above all, about how an artist might grapple with America's "great moral theme."
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
41
Issue
1
Date
Fall 2021
Pages
28-42
COinS
Citation
Wyatt, David. "Ellison's Hemingway." Hemingway Review 41, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 28-42.