Who Was With Pascin at the Dome?
2003; Indiana University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/jml.2004.0023
ISSN1529-1464
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
ResumoReaders of Hemingway's Paris memoir have focused on the sections that concern Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. They have paid less attention to figures such as Jules Pascin and Evan Shipman. Lewis Galantiere calls Pascin "a flashy nonentity" whose appearance "serves no literary purpose" and to a casual reader Galantiere seems right.1 On the surface, "With Pascin at the Dôme" is a banal piece of writing. One evening Hemingway takes a walk along the Boulevard du Montparnasse. He describes the sights and sounds of the quarter at the end of the day. The cafés are full of people. Some he knows, others he does not, and some of those whom he knows he deliberately avoids. Eventually he stops at the Dôme and has a beer with the painter Jules Pascin.2 On the surface nothing much happens, and the objective of the sketch seems to be to relive an event that took place years earlier. However a close scrutiny will show that many of the details do not fit and that the resulting combination is a product of Hemingway's imagination that dramatizes the most important themes of the book: industry and idleness, poverty and affluence, innocence and corruption.
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