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Hemingway's Laboratory: The Paris in our time. By Milton A. Cohen. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. 267 pp. Cloth $38.75.
The chapter in Ecclesiastes from which Hemingway took the title of his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises, continues with the question, "Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?'" (1.10). This question no doubt bedevils modern-day scholars of writers such as Hemingway, around whom an entire industry has erected its crowding scaffolding. In his recently published book, Hemingway's Laboratory: The Paris in our time, Milton A. Cohen makes a strong case for something new under the sun in Hemingway studies.
Hemingway's Laboratory offers a close, scholarly analysis of the eighteen vignettes comprising in our time (1924), sketches which, a year later, would become interchapters in the collection of stories titled In Our Time. Most critics agree that in these sparse, unsparing vignettes Hemingway had "made it new," as his mentor Ezra Pound had exhorted. The real...
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