Posted on 08/03/2018 5:45:29 PM PDT by BBell
NEW YORK -- The themes and trappings are familiar for an Ernest Hemingway narrative: Paris, wartime, talk of books and wine and the scars of battle.
But the story itself has been little known beyond the scholarly community for decades: "A Room on the Garden Side," written in 1956, is being published for the first time. The brief, World War II-era fiction appears this week in the summer edition of The Strand Magazine, a literary quarterly which has released obscure works by Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck and others.
"Hemingway's deep love for his favorite city as it is just emerging from Nazi occupation is on full display, as are the hallmarks of his prose," Strand Managing Editor Andrew F. Gulli wrote in an editorial note.
Kirk Curnutt, a board member of The Hemingway Society, contributed an afterword for the Strand, saying that "the story contains all the trademark elements readers love in Hemingway."
"Steeped in talk of Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, and Alexandre Dumas, and featuring a long excerpt in French from Charles Baudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du Mal,' the story implicitly wonders whether the heritage of Parisian culture can recover from the dark taint of fascism," Curnutt wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Part of being a good writer, is knowing whether what you just wrote is something you want published under your name.
Lots of times, unpublished stories and songs were unpublished for a reason.
True, but the reason isn’t always because it is a bad piece.
Sometimes it is because it is outside of the tastes of the author’s established reader base, and would be disappointing to that audience.
Juggling a raft of pseudonyms isn’t just to hide from the limelight or meet contractual stipulations, it helps deliver different works to different audiences.
All the other Hemingway I've read I pretty much hated.
And "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomb." I was blown away by that story. Hemingway was one great writer.
Ping for later.
The Green Hills of Africa, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber I liked very much.
All the other Hemingway I’ve read I pretty much hated.
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Maybe I’ll look into one of those. I can’t stand him, he’s a Joyce to read.
Some of the most boring novels I’ve ever read were by John Steinbeck.
Do I have to read it standing naked at a podium, with a glass of scotch handy to get the full Hemingway effect?
A few years ago I read a book about Zelda Fitzgerald.
When Zelda and Hemingway first met in France, he took F. Scott aside and confidentially told him Zelda was insane. Later Zelda told Fitzgerald that Hemingway was a phony.
They were probably both right.
Some of the most boring novels I’ve ever read were by John Steinbeck
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*gasp-holds heart* There is only Steinbeck and then the rest. OK, Tortilla Flats sucked.
“Is Paris Burning?”
It helps if you are in Key West or Cuba. Paris would be appropriate for this one.
I never thought much about Hemingway until I read “Old Man at the Bridge” a short work by him during the Spanish civil war. Hemingway took a news dispatch he filed and turned it into literature. I was much impressed. I thought it was amazing.
Read this about him:
and sometimes because it would get the author killed ...
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