Title
Artifice and Reality: The Blending of Venice and America in Across the River and into the Trees
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
On the complex and contradictory theme of illusion and reality permeating Cantwell’s interwoven vision of America and Venice. Long’s comparison reveals the protagonist’s idealization of both the Old and New Worlds, along with his undermining of those artificial representations. Concludes that in the end, Cantwell must face death devoid of the comfort of illusion.
Date
2017
Pages
145-158
COinS
Citation
Cirino, Mark and Mark P. Ott, eds. Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.