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:: As a writer, Hemingway was of course intensely interested in 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 | :: As a writer, Hemingway was of course intensely interested in | ||
work and how important “dreams of places” were to the | 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 con- | |||
struction 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 se- | |||
ries 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}}. | |||
Kennedy perceives that in Hemingway “place is the organizing principle | Kennedy perceives that in Hemingway “place is the organizing principle |
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