The French Connection: Some Visual and Literary Sources for the French Connection in Hemingway’s The Light of the World

  • Giemza, Bryan
Publication date
October 2010
Publisher
UST Research Online

Abstract

Analyzes Guy de Maupassant’s “La Maison Tellier,” Émile Zola\u27s Nana (1880), and Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) as literary sources for Hemingway’s characterization of prostitutes, and the works of Édouard Manet and Henri Gervex as visual inspirations. Giemza also explores a possible connection with William Holman Hunt’s painting of the same title, although Hemingway denied its influence. Giemza concludes that these allusions indicate an underlying tribute to the French art and culture that Hemingway so admired

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