Richard Bradford

The Man Who Wasn't There (eBook, PDF)

A Life of Ernest Hemingway

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's 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 Hemingway's 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 writer's private signature, their authorial fingerprint.

In this new biography, which includes previously unpublished letters from the Hemingway archives, Richard Bradford reveals how Hemingway all but erased his own existence through a lifetime of invention and delusion, and provides the reader with a completely new understanding of the Hemingway oeuvre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755634378
• Artikelnr.: 60121708

Autorenporträt

Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon, France. He has published over thirty widely acclaimed books, including biographies of Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, Kingsley Amis, George Orwell and a controversial portraiture of Patricia Highsmith. Bradford has written for The Spectator and The Sunday Times and has appeared on the Channel 4 series In Their Own Words: British Novelists.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The
Young Deceiver 2 An American in Paris 3 Key West 4 Conflicts 5 War: With
Martha 6 Secrets and Lies 7 Everywhere and Nowhere Epilogue Bibliography
Index