French connections : Hemingway and Fitzgerald abroad / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Jackson R. Bryer.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Kennedy, J. Gerald.
• Bryer, Jackson R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Friends and associates.
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Friends and associates.
• Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.
• Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
• Friends and associates.
• Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.
• Americans.
• France--Paris.
• History.
• Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
• Authors, American.
• American literature--French influences.
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 352 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald met in 1925, two weeks after the publication of The Great Gatsby, in the Dingo Bar in Paris. From that night on they maintained a complicated friendship born of mutual admiration, envy, and implicit rivalry. French Connections is a collection of thoughtful and often stirring essays devoted to exploring the shared influence that these two legendary writers had on each other's work. The essayists examine the role of France, particularly Paris, in both writers' bodies of work, and how their sustained contact with one another in France as opposed to the States determined the sometimes hilarious, sometimes resentful tenor of their relationship. Other chapters focus on the intertextual impact that the writers had on one another, unveiling finespun threads of influence that allow for new interpretations of their work. French Connections is a revealing collection of essays that traces the paths of inspiration that intersected so unforgettably for these two writers.

Contents:

• Preface: Recovering the French Connections of Hemingway and Fitzgerald / J. Gerald Kennedy, Jackson R. Bryer vii
• I. Overviews: Two American Writers in Paris
• 1. The Right Place at the Right Time / George Wickes 3
• 2. Fitzgerald's Blue Pencil / Scott Donaldson 15
• II. Hemingway And France
• 3. "Very Cheerful and Clean and Sane and Lovely": Hemingway's "Very Pleasant Land of France" / H. R. Stoneback 33
• 4. The Expatriate Predicament in The Sun Also Rises / Robert A. Martin 61
• 5. City of Brothelly Love: The Influence of Paris and Prostitution on Hemingway's Fiction / Claude Caswell 75
• 6. A Shelter from The Torrents of Spring / Welford Dunaway Taylor 101
• 7. "In the temps de Gertrude": Hemingway, Stein, and the Scene of Instruction at 27, rue de Fleurus / Kirk Curnutt 121
• 8. The Other Paris Years of Ernest Hemingway: 1937 and 1938 / William Braasch Watson 141
• III. Fitzgerald and France
• 9. Fitzgerald, Paris, and the Romantic Imagination / Ruth Prigozy 161
• 10. "France Was a Land": F. Scott Fitzgerald's Expatriate Theme in Tender Is the Night / John F. Callahan 173
• 11. The Figure on the Bed: Difference and American Destiny in Tender Is the Night / Felipe Smith 187
• 12. The Influence of France on Nicole Diver's Recovery in Tender Is the Night / Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin 215
• IV. Intertextual French Connections
• 13. Strange Fruits in The Garden of Eden: "The Mysticism of Money," The Great Gatsby
• and A Moveable Feast / Jacqueline Vaught Brogan 235
• 14. The Sun Also Rises as "A Greater Gatsby": "Isn't it pretty to think so" / James Plath 257
• 15. Madwomen on the Riviera: The Fitzgeralds, Hemingway, and the Matter of Modernism / Nancy R. Comley 277
• 16. The Metamorphosis of Fitzgerald's Dick Diver and Its Hemingway Analogs / Robert E. Gajdusek 297
• 17. Figuring the Damage: Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" and Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" / J. Gerald Kennedy 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312163649

OCLC:

38016665