On Hemingway’s Literary Characters
Sur les personnages littéraires de Hemingway
Despre personajele literare ale lui Hemingway
Maria-Miruna Ciocoi-Pop
“Vasile Goldiş” Western University of Arad
Faculty for Humanities, Political and Administrative Sciences
3, Unirii street, Arad
E-mail: miruna_ciocoipop@yahoo.com
Abstract
The present paper is a brief outline of Hemingway’s characters and the way in which they correspond to the author himself. It is known for a fact that Hemingway evinced a tendency to imitate his characters when they were coming to grips with diverse situations. Thus I have tried to briefly pinpoint the fading boundaries between reality and imagination in his work. By doing so, I have focused on both male and female characters, underlining the major dissimilarities between these two categories, as well as their main features.
Resume
Le présent document est un bref aperçu des personnages de Hemingway et de la façon dont elles correspondent à l’auteur lui-même. On sait pertinemment que Hemingway a manifesté une tendance à imiter ses personnages quand il venait aux prises avec des situations similaires a à celles presentées dans ses romans. Donc, j’ai essayé de préciser brièvement les limites, quelquesfois tres fines, entre réalité et imagination dans le travail de Hemingway. Ce faisant, je me suis concentrée tant sur les personnages feminines que sur les personnages masculines, soulignant les différences principales entre ces deux catégories, ainsi que leurs caractéristiques principales.
Rezumat
Această lucrare este o scurtă privire asupra personajelor literare ale lui Hemingway şi asupra felului în care acestea corespund autorului însuşi. Este cunoscut faptul că Hemingway a avut tendinţa de a-şi imita personajele atunci când acesta se confruntau cu diverse situaţii similare celor prezentate în romanele sale. Astfel am încercat sa subliniez succint graniţele, uneori foarte fine, între real şi imaginar în opera lui Hemingway. Totodată m-am concentrat aâat asupra personajelor feminine, cât şi asupra celor masculine, subliniind calitãţile lor majore dar şi diferenţele dintre acestea.
Key words: characters, reality, imagination, shifting boundaries
Cuvinte cheie: personaje, real, imaginar, graniţe interschimbabile
Des mots clés: des personnages, le réal, l’imaginaire, déplacement des frontières