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Feb 23, 2017 - 5:44 AM
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Jim Phelps
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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Vol. 1, 1907-1922
This volume features a foreword which includes a ton of detailed behind-the-scenes information on how the letters were accumulated from varied sources and the editorial choices made in what to omit and include as far as typos, grammatical errors, punctuation, etc. There is also a superb biographical introduction chronicling the goings ons in Hemingway's life during the period covered in this first volume.
As for the letters, even the teenaged Hemingway was a memorable correspondent. He is quite the cut up with an intelligent, often absurd sense of humor. Hemingway employs word play and satirizes many books, poems, movies, and songs of the time. He even writes warm, humorous letters to his later estranged elder sister Marcellne, which makes me wonder when their falling out occurred; perhaps when he became well known.
The difference in quality in just a few years (1913-16) shows how quickly Hemingway matured as a writer. It is a reflection of how children were expected to grow into adulthood almost overnight, and they usually did. By the end of this volume, Ernest Hemingway will have graduated high school, serve in World War I, get married, and move to Paris as a newspaper reporter. The next volume will chronicle his rise as one of the world's great writers.
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Feb 26, 2017 - 4:14 PM
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mgh
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"Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."
~A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
And a little later on:
"He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it."
--A Clean Well-Lighted Place
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Feb 28, 2017 - 7:38 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Have ordered a Hemingway documentary I have yet to see, Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea a 2005 entry from the long-running PBS American Masters series. I recall negative reviews from some fellow Hemingway pals o'mine upon this film's release, but I like to come to my own conclusions.  This documentary includes interviews with lone-surviving Hemingway son, Patrick, so this should be worth it just for that.
http://www.popmatters.com/review/american-masters-ernest-hemingway/
Also have the Papa Hemingway in Cuba DVD on the way, a film I have watched and reviewed in this thread most Papa.
Howard L, should you ever find either volume of The Best of Bad Hemingway, I recommend giving those a read. However, I understand that most FSMers do not enjoy humor or laughter, so steer clear if you despise either of those.
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