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Ernest Hemingway's little-known war story from 1956 published for first time
https://www.nola.com/ ^ | 8/2/18

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 ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: ernesthemingway
I will probably read it. I liked his writing style.
1 posted on 08/03/2018 5:45:29 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

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Lots of times, unpublished stories and songs were unpublished for a reason.


2 posted on 08/03/2018 5:50:15 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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To: PapaBear3625

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.


3 posted on 08/03/2018 5:57:26 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: BBell
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.

4 posted on 08/03/2018 5:57:56 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd ( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: BBell
I have some of his most famous stuff and a couple of his short stories. The two most memorable for me were "Up in Michigan" where he spent his summers as a lid as I also did.

And "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomb." I was blown away by that story. Hemingway was one great writer.

5 posted on 08/03/2018 6:00:21 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: BBell

Ping for later.


6 posted on 08/03/2018 6:02:59 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

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.


7 posted on 08/03/2018 6:08:17 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: BBell

Some of the most boring novels I’ve ever read were by John Steinbeck.


8 posted on 08/03/2018 6:08:53 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline is here. you just can't see it.)
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To: BBell

Do I have to read it standing naked at a podium, with a glass of scotch handy to get the full Hemingway effect?


9 posted on 08/03/2018 6:10:46 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
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To: BBell

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.


10 posted on 08/03/2018 6:11:26 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Bullish

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.


11 posted on 08/03/2018 6:19:17 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: BBell

“Is Paris Burning?”


12 posted on 08/03/2018 6:21:04 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Michael.SF.

It helps if you are in Key West or Cuba. Paris would be appropriate for this one.


13 posted on 08/03/2018 6:24:42 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

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.


14 posted on 08/03/2018 6:36:52 PM PDT by odawg
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To: BBell; All

Read this about him:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/04/author-hemingway-watched-ches-firing-squad-massacres-while-sipping-daiquiris


15 posted on 08/03/2018 8:12:51 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: MrEdd

and sometimes because it would get the author killed ...


16 posted on 08/04/2018 2:09:40 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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