Note: this is the last installment (for now) of my series of blog posts on “Hemingway in Istanbul”

Over a decade after his visit to Constantinople in 1922, Hemingway wrote a piece of fiction titled “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Hemingway 1997/1936). Although this story is set in Africa, it contains a flashback sequence set in Constantinople during the allied occupation of the city. Among other things, the narrator of Hemingway’s story remembers how “he had whored the whole time” during his visit to Constantinople and recounts a fight over “a hot Armenian slut” who “slung her belly against him so it almost scalded” (Hemingway, 1997/1936: 67). Are these nightlife flashbacks in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” grounded in Hemingway’s own experience of the sex trade in the Near East during his fall 1922 visit? If so,this seedy side of Hemingway’s sojourn deserves to be explored further. Where in the Sixth District were the nightclubs, bars, and brothels described in the nightlife flashbacks located, and how many did Hemingway himself visit during his three-week sojourn in the Queen of Cities?