Ernest Hemingway

Although much has been written about Hemingway's love of action - hunting, fishing, drinking, bullfighting, boxing, travel - Cirino looks at Hemingway's focus on the modern mind, paralleling the interest in consciousness of such predecessors and contemporaries as Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Henry James. Hemingway, Cirino demonstrates, probes the ways his character's minds respond when placed in urgent situations or when damaged by past traumas.