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Article: Under Kilimanjaro--truthiness at late light: or would Oprah kick Hemingway out of her book club.(Oprah Winfrey, Ernest Hemingway)(Critical essay)
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- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW, I have been reading and rereading Hemingway's African narrative Under Kilimanjaro (admirably edited by Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming "to produce a complete reading text" of Hemingway's manuscript), and reassessing True at First Light (the radically truncated 1999 commercial version of the same manuscript, skillfully edited by Patrick Hemingway), hoping to say something perspicacious or at least useful in these brief remarks I agreed to write. Because I will be teaching Under Kilimanjaro in a graduate seminar this semester, and I taught True at First Light immediately after its release in 1999, I thought I would list here some of the reasons ...