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Date: | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:08:47 +0200 |
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Cinzia,
Why don't you try a comparison between the Mississippi for Huck Finn and
the
Piave river for Nick Adams ? In relation to both the characters, the
river
is a symbolic frontier between adolescence and maturity and, if you
consider
the historical periods in wich the two have been created, also a frontier
of
the american experience (the american dream loosing its innocence before
on
the western frontier, then in Europe). You can find informations about it
in:
Philip Young
"Ernest Hemingway"
Ed. Mursia, Milano, 1962.
A copy of this book is at the Braidense National Library in Milan.
Starting from this point, you can also try a comparison between Huck and
Nick
(the river, a geographic frontier for America) and Holden Caufield (the
50's,
a cultural frontier and a new loss of innocence with Korean war,
Maccarthism
and, ten years later, the Vietnam).
Hoping that this can give you some idea,
Best Regards:
Luca Gandolfi
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