Tag Archives: Edmund Wilson

fear of a blank page: farewell to the shadowland

Hemingway’s story on his visit to Spain in 1959 got out of control and became a rambling mass of words, a tangle of literature nearly three times longer than the forty thousand words Life magazine had agreed to print. Hemingway … Continue reading

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when the bell tolls

…Besides all that, Hemingway was committed to his public image. He was also weary of it and fatigued by its constant demands. Perhaps. But it was bigger than him and could lead him by the nose; as a fisherman he … Continue reading

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Islands in the dream

Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Scolds. Two men. Two souls; the image and the shadow circling each other. He mostly lived up to that dazzling public persona he constructed for himself, but what deeper forces, psychic jackals, stalked his … Continue reading

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the shadow side of the page

Hemingway: the image and the shadow. What lay behind the dazzling public persona he created for himself? … It must be remembered that the image is an essential part of the truth about Hemingway. Not only did he project an … Continue reading

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lost generation: secret wound

The image and the shadow of Ernest Hemingway. What psychic jackals stalked the dazzling public persona? … Of course, the real importance of the Hemingway image has been its effect on literary history. it appeared at exactly the right time: … Continue reading

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stalking the psychic jackals

Ernest Hemingway. There was the dazzling public persona to which he lived up to, but behind it there was a shadowland of deep war wounds and psychic jackals that stalked his later years… He was truly spooked by the war … Continue reading

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image and the shadow

Ernest Hemingway. He created a dazzling public persona for himself and mostly lived up to it. He seldom spoke of how deep his war wounds had gone and what psychic jackals stalked his later years… Early and late in life, … Continue reading

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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS

Although Dickens based William Dorrit as well as Mr. Micawber, on some of the superficial mannerisms and idiosyncrasies of his father, the fundamental humiliation of Dorrit, his shame and fears , helplessness and concealments, are in all likelihood Dicken’s own. … Continue reading

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GODLESS GOLDEN RULE

Marcel Proust’s Paris aristocracy: perpetually engaged for dinner, decorative, idle and dangerous for social climbers. In Proust’s ”Remembrance of Things Past” , what lent the aristocrats of the Faubourg Saint-Germain their luster was precisely their ”famous and poetic” names , … Continue reading

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OUR BEDFELLOW WHO ART …. IN INIQUITY

Whips, Knives and dreams of mass destruction. The Marquis de Sade. He knew what we have taken a long time to learn….sex is not just something that happens in a bedroom.Mankind is not doing well at the moment, but mankind … Continue reading

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