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• W16977565 abstract "Ernest Hemingway and His Two Sons on Veranda: Tift-Hemingway House, 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Monroe County, FL, (Historic American Buildings Survey: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.).Chapter II of The Sun Also Rises contains a frankly existential conversation between Jake and Robert Cohn that includes the following exchange:Listen, Jake, he leaned forward on the bar. Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?Yes, every once in a while.Do you know that in about thirty-five years more we'll be dead?What the hell, Robert, I said. What the hell. (Hemingway H)The last time I read the novel, the specificity of thirty-five years struck me, and I flipped to the front of the book to find Copyright 1926. Doing the sum was natural: 1926 + 35 = 1961: the very year Hemingway committed suicide. I was stunned at this, at what is, if nothing else, a chilling collision of biography and text, a coincidence of such aesthetic power one almost has to doubt it really could be merely that. To be clear, it might be a coincidence, but it also may not be, and the latter possibility is, to say the least, aesthetically provocative.There might be quibbles, though, about the math, which call into question whether this even counts as a true coincidence. Cohn says that they will be dead not in, but in about, thirty-five years, which blurs things a bit, though it would jar the reader for Cohn to be more precise, and not qualify accordingly. Also, Hemingway's death might have come thirty-five years from the time of publication, but probably not from the time of writing, although he certainly could have allowed for such a time lag in finalizing the manuscript. Another complication is that Jake's age in the mid-thirties fails to coincide with Hemingway's latetwenties at the time, although there seems little point in denying the plausibility that Jake is interpretable as Hemingway's literary standin, despite other clear divergences of the character from the author.The more difficult and interesting question is not whether it is a coincidence but rather how best to interpret the coincidence. I assume for now we lack the biographical data to answer such a question unequivocally in terms of Hemingway's intentions, except perhaps as might be inferred from, among other things, the itself. Even with such data, we might try to deny the apparent significance in terms of a text only view of interpretation that would, as a matter of principle, reduce to mere coincidence something that is clearly otherwise.In elevating the already high esteem in which we hold the novel, there is some aesthetic justification in speculating further on the relationship between the textual excerpt, Hemingway's production of it, and our response to it. We might speculate, for instance, that the excerpt counts as a well-planned suicide note, bizarrely so, but possibly, that in retrospect the suicide becomes the novel's and novelist's own self-fulfilling prophecy. The most extraordinary thing about this interpretive slant is not so much that the excerpt was written so many years before its fulfillment, but that it was written before Hemingway even became Hemingway, that nothing in the interim of thirty-five years dissuaded him from fulfilling the promise. The same goes for interpreting the excerpt as Hemingway, true to his roots as a reporter, gave himself a deadline-a date by which he was, by his own choice, to have finished all the work he was to do.Each of these interpretations has a sort of aesthetic appeal that ro- manticizes Hemingway as the man with a kind of superhuman literary determination. The danger here, though, is in trying to understand the significance of the work too much in terms of the life that produced it, as if we are over-aestheticizing the man at the cost of undervaluing the work, framing it as a means to authorial appreciation. …" @default.
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