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"A Divine Gesture": Hemingway's complex parody of the modern.(Ernest Hemingway's first professional publication)

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From: The Hemingway Review
Date: 19960922
Author:Ryan, Dennis

Ernest Hemingway's first professionally published work, 'A Divine Gesture,' is a complicated parody of the avant-garde instead of the mere juvenile exercise critics have assumed. Hemingway uses elements of cubist art, the dadaist writing techniques of Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein, and the dream theories of Havelock Ellis to construct a symbolic fable that pokes fun at the modern art and literature of the early 1920s. 'A Divine Gesture' also merits interest as an early example of Hemingway's rapidly maturing characteristic style.

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