Synopses & Reviews
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 others 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.
Review
“A goldmine for buffs of these two great writers.”
Booklist“The essays provide thoughtful insight into each writers association with France.” Library Journal
About the Author
J. Gerald Kennedy is Professor of English at Louisiana State University.
Jackson R. Bryer is Professor of English at University of Maryland.
Table of Contents
Preface: Recovering the French Connections of Hemingway and Fitzgerald--J. Gerald Kennedy and Jackson R. Bryer *
Overviews: Two American Writers in Paris * The Right Place at the Right Time--George Wickes * Fitzgerald’s Blue Pencil--Scott Donaldson *
Hemingway and France * Hemingway’s "Very Pleasant Land of France"--H.R. Stoneback * The Expatriate Predicament in
The Sun Also Rises --Robert A. Martin * The Influence of Paris and Prostitution on Hemingway’s Fiction--Claude Caswell * A Shelter from
The Torrents of Spring --Welford Dunaway Taylor * Hemingway, Stein, and the Scene of Instruction at 27, rue de Fleurus--Kirk Curnutt * The Other Paris Years of Ernest Hemingway: 1937 and 1938--William Braasch Watson *
Fitzgerald and France * Fitzgerald, Paris, and the Romantic Imagination--Ruth Prigozy * F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Expatriate Theme in
Tender Is the Night --John F. Callahan * Difference and American Destiny in
Tender is the Night --Felipe Smith * The Influence of France on Nicole Driver’s Recovery in
Tender Is the Night --Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin *
Intertextual French Connections * Strange Fruits in
The Garden of Eden "The Mysticism of Money,"
The Great Gatsby, and
A Moveable Feast --Jacqueline Vaught Brogan *
The Sun Also Rises as a "Greater Gatsby": "Isn’t It Pretty to Think So"--James Plath * The Fitzgeralds, Hemingway, and the Matter of Modernism--Nancy R. Comley * The Metamorphosis of Fitzgerald's Dick Driver and Its Hemingway Analogs--Robert E. Gajdusek * Fitzgerald’s "Babylon Revisited" and Hemingway’s "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"--J. Gerald Kennedy * Notes on Contributors Preface: Recovering the French Connections of Hemingway and Fitzgerald--J. Gerald Kennedy and Jackson R. Bryer *
Overviews: Two American Writers in Paris * The Right Place at the Right Time--George Wickes * Fitzgerald’s Blue Pencil--Scott Donaldson *
Hemingway and France * Hemingway’s "Very Pleasant Land of France"--H.R. Stoneback * The Expatriate Predicament in
The Sun Also Rises --Robert A. Martin * The Influence of Paris and Prostitution on Hemingway’s Fiction--Claude Caswell * A Shelter from
The Torrents of Spring --Welford Dunaway Taylor * Hemingway, Stein, and the Scene of Instruction at 27, rue de Fleurus--Kirk Curnutt * The Other Paris Years of Ernest Hemingway: 1937 and 1938--William Braasch Watson *
Fitzgerald and France * Fitzgerald, Paris, and the Romantic Imagination--Ruth Prigozy * F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Expatriate Theme in
Tender Is the Night --John F. Callahan * Difference and American Destiny in
Tender is the Night --Felipe Smith * The Influence of France on Nicole Driver’s Recovery in
Tender Is the Night --Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin *
Intertextual French Connections * Strange Fruits in
The Garden of Eden "The Mysticism of Money,"
The Great Gatsby, and
A Moveable Feast --Jacqueline Vaught Brogan *
The Sun Also Rises as a "Greater Gatsby": "Isn’t It Pretty to Think So"--James Plath * The Fitzgeralds, Hemingway, and the Matter of Modernism--Nancy R. Comley * The Metamorphosis of Fitzgerald's Dick Driver and Its Hemingway Analogs--Robert E. Gajdusek * Fitzgerald’s "Babylon Revisited" and Hemingway’s "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"--J. Gerald Kennedy * Notes on Contributors