Hemingway's Quarrel With Androgyny

by Mark Spilka

Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny confronts the entrenched mystique surrounding the hard drinker, bullfighter, and creator of characters steeled by their own code. Spilka stresses Hemingway's lifelong dependence on and secret identification with women, and in doing so shatters the myths of male bonding and heroic lives of "men without women." He develops the biographical, literary, and cultural implications of Hemingway's lifelong quarrel with androgyny to reveal a more psychologically complex man and writer than the mystique has allowed.

383 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1990

Reviews

[Rusty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating study. After finishing the Garden of Eden years ago, I wondered why no one had done a study of Hemingway's work in this light, and browsing at the Boston Public Library, I just happened to find this. Great reading for the dedicated fan.