novel. Furthermore, Baker explains Hemingway was unaware that those close to him agreed with the majority of critics. For example, his wife Mary, who disapproved of Across the River and into the Trees, said: "I kept my mouth shut. Nobody had appointed me my husband's editor." The novel has undergone a reassessment since its publication; Meyers believes the novel shows a new "confessional mode" in Hemingway's work, and that it "would have been hailed as more impressive if it had been written by anyone but Hemingway." The Hemingway critic Ben Stoltzfus agrees; he sees the structure as more comprehensible for the modern reader—exposed to the Nouveau roman—than for those of the mid-20th century. Baker compares it to Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, or The Tempest: not a major work, but one with an "elegiac" tone. Film adaptation In 2016, it was announced that a feature film based upon the novel was being developed with producers Kirstin Roegner and John Smallcombe. Filming started in Venice, Italy on December 9, 2020, with Liev Schreiber in the lead role and Paula Ortiz directing. The film debuted at the Sun Valley Film Festival on March 30, 2022. References References Baker, Carlos. (1972). Hemingway: The Writer as Artist. Princeton: Princeton UP. Benson, Jackson. (1989). "Ernest Hemingway: The Life as Fiction and the Fiction as Life". American Literature. 61.3, 354–358 DeFazio, Albert. (2005). Dear Papa, dear Hotch: the correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E Hotchner. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. Mellow, James. (1992). Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. New York: Houghton Mifflin. Meyers, Jeffrey. (1985). Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Macmillan. Oliver, Charles. (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark Publishing. Ross, Lillian. (1951). "How Do You Like it Now, Gentlemen?". The New Yorker, May 13, 1950. 36. Sanderson, Rena. (2006). Hemingway's Italy: New Perspectives. Louisiana State University Press. Stoltzfus, Ben. (2003). "The Stones of Venice, Time and Remembrance: Calculus and Proust in Across the River and into the Trees". The Hemingway Review. 22.2. 20–29 Stoltzfus, Ben. (2005). "Sartre, Nada, and Hemingway's African Stories". Comparative Literature Studies. 42.3. 228–250 Svoboda, Frederic J. (2000). "The Great Themes in Hemingway: Love, War, Wilderness and Loss". in A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway edited by Linda Wagner Martin. New York: Oxford University Press. External links Hemingway Archives, John F. Kennedy Library Literary Encyclopedia Review 1950 American novels American novels adapted