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:: As a writer, Hemingway was of course intensely interested in | :: As a writer, Hemingway was of course intensely interested in | ||
human conflicts and challenges, but he perceived in the physical | human conflicts and challenges, but he perceived in the physical order an ultimate, irreducible truth that he strove to capture. He understood how deeply “accidents of terrain” had shaped his work and how important “dreams of places” were to the construction of his stories and novels. As suggested by “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” that most geographical of his fictions, he also recognized that place is the organizing principle of memory and so conceived the last reveries of Harry, the dying writer, as a series of topographical visions. To the end, doing country (or doing city) remained arguably the crux of Hemingway’s poetics, the generative principle of narrative itself. {{sfn|Kennedy|1999|pp=328-329}}. | ||
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Kennedy perceives that in Hemingway “place is the organizing principle | Kennedy perceives that in Hemingway “place is the organizing principle |
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