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Hemingway, Ernest, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.(Hemingway contre Fitzgerald)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20030622
Author:Savigneau, Josyane

Hemingway contre Fitzgerald. Scott Donaldson. Trans. (from English-US) Carine Chichereau. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2002. 346 pp. Euro26.

Is friendship possible between writers? Maybe not, considering the single combat each wages against words, society, and uncertain posterity. Yet it seems that in their first encounter in Paris in 1925, they experienced something like mutual love at first sight. Deterioration occurred two years later, and rupture in 1936. Far from those boring biographies crammed with details and void of meaning, Donaldson's evokes magnificently these two ...

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