The Man Who Wasn't There. A Life Of Ernest Hemingway

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Tauris Parke
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: Revised

Description: 470 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th centurys most iconic writer. Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness.Richard Bradford shows that Hemingways work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature.They are the writers private signature, their authorial fingerprint. In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing biography, which includes a complete reassessment of Hemingways oeuvre Hemingways unfixed personality is shown to be the index to why and how he wrote as he did.

ISBN: 9780755600977