Ernest Hemingway is most often associated with Spain, Cuba and Florida, but Italy was equally important in his life and work. This book, the first full-length study on the subject, explores Hemingway's visits throughout his life to such places as Sicily, Genoa, Rapallo, Cortina and Venice. Richard Owen describes how Hemingway first visited Italy during the First World War, an experience that set the scene for A Farewell to Arms. The writer then returned after the Second World War, and found inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees. When Men Without Women was published, some reviewers declared Hemingway to be at heart a reporter preoccupied with bullfighters, soldiers, prostitutes and hard drinkers, but their claims failed to note that he also wrote sensitively and passionately about love and loss against an Italian backdrop. Owen highlights the significance of Italy in the writer's life. Showing how the Italian landscape, from the Venetian lagoon to the Dolomites and beyond, deeply affected one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Hemingway in Italy demonstrates that this country stands alongside Spain as a key influence on his writing - and why the Italians themselves took Hemingway and his writing to heart.

About the Author
Richard Owen was the Rome correspondent of The Times for 15 years. He was previously the paper's correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Jerusalem, and also served as Foreign Editor. Owen has written several works of non-fiction including Crisis in the Kremlin: Soviet Succession and the Rise of Gorbachev, Letter from Moscow and Lady Chatterley's Villa: D.H. Lawrence on the Italian Riviera.

Reviews
'An exceptionally lively study... Hemingway's adoration of Italy never waned'. - Times Literary Supplement



Book Information
ISBN 9781909961708
Author Richard Owen
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Publisher Haus Publishing