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Hemingway’s Modern Hymn: Music and the Church as Background Sources for “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”
Ist Teil von
The Hemingway review, 2008-09, Vol.28 (1), p.51-67
Ort / Verlag
Moscow: The Hemingway Foundation and Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Critical interpretations of “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen” have puzzled over the story’s opening analogy of Kansas City to Constantinople. This essay explores sequestered musico-religious traditions as a means of locating the comparison in a tonal cartography rather than a geographical one. The musical context is deepened, also, by examining Hemingway’s ancestral connection both to church music and, remotely, to the castrati, castrated young boys whose vocal talents irrevocably altered the development of music in the Western church. While many readers dismiss the story as a fragmented narrative failure, reading “God Rest You” as a prose hymn renders both its peculiar narrative structure and disturbing content part of a cohesive artistic vision.