ABSTRACT
This chapter critically analyzes the biopreservation process taking place in the narratives about Ernest Hemingway, The Paris Wife, Travels with Myself and Another and Hemingway’s Girl. This analysis unravels Hadley’s narrative identity and the creation of Hemingway’s biofictional image. This, in turn, is compared with the biofictions about Fitzgerald from the previous chapter. The concept of biopreservation is used to examine the life-writing textuality resulting from the mixture of the genre. This chapter further compares and contrasts the biofictional narratives of the two American authors by pointing out that in order to read the numerous meanings of such books, a detailed textual analysis is necessary. This chapter concludes that only by investigating on the inside, one can understand the image on the outside.
