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Hemingway, the Figure of the Bicycle, and Avant-garde Paris

Hemingway’s literary interest in cycling has been upstaged by other interests such as bullfighting and boxing. But in his apprenticeship years in Paris, he became a devoted fan of bicycle racing, went on cycling tours, and experimented with this figure of the cyclist in his fiction. More importantly, in those years avant-garde artists and intellectuals often focused on the bicycle in order to address issues of motion, energy, and speed. Hemingway’s interest in creating a prose style of motion and the total image suggests that he engaged closely with this avant-garde experimentation. It is in this unique context that our author often turned to the bicycle (as both topic and figure) as a means to capture the so-called fourth dimension in prose.