Summary
Ernest Hemingway: Islands in the Stream
from the afterword: "The title of this work has a double meaning. The action takes place on a once exotic archipelago, which is mourned by the Gulf Stream, which in these parts is simply called "The Current". The second, metaphorical meaning of the term speaks of a lonely man in the current of events - the aged Hemingway seems to replicate the motto of the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, which begins with the words: “No man is an island…”
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