Found Hemingway Story Won't Be Published

Associated Press ^ | Mon Sep 27 | ANGELA DOLAND

[presidio9]

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[Gingersnap]

"Found Hemingway Story Won't Be Published"

Thank God.

[escapefromboston]

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[Red Badger]

"They are expected to sell between $12,000 and $18,000"

My bet is thhey will fetch > $1M. After all, they don't make 'em anymore......except maybe at See BS....

[goodnesswins]

LOL....THAT was like MY reaction.....GOOD!

[kinsman redeemer]

First thing I thought:

Did the typed document use any supscript?

[Gingersnap]

Yeah, I never understood the appeal. The guy knew about 20 words and was obsessed about other guys who engaged in risky, and ultimately pointless, activities.

If he hadn't killed himself, I doubt he'd be well known today.

[FreedomFarmer]

— but it can't be published.

It is death.

It is a good death.

In the sun.

[sine_nomine]

I just read "For Whom the Bell Tolls." What a dreadful piece of crap. This so-called find is going to stir up some interest in him, but he was a lousy writer. F. Scott Fitzgerald died broke and out of print, but his Great Gatsby is a masterpiece.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I just read "For Whom the Bell Tolls." What a dreadful piece of crap.

To each his (or her) own, but a "dreadful piece of crap?" I think that's just a tad over the top.

And Fitzgerald died "broke" because he was a soused-up drunk with a lavish lifestyle and a nut for a wife. But his Great Gatsby was a masterpiece.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

It's too bad this isn't going to be published. I'd love to know what his pre-The Sun Also Rises narrative style was like, though you can get bits of it from some of his oldest short stories.

Though I'm sure Hemingway never intended this to be published, so to hold it up as any sort of literary "great" would be unfair to the man. As a writer myself, I know first drafts and other non-polished pieces of writing are, more often than not, extremely embarassing.

[Doctor Stochastic]

El Toro. Murió. Por la Espada. Lloviendo.

[zeugma]

It was written in 1924. Hasn't the copyright expired on that?

[sine_nomine]

I won't discuss the dysfunctional Hemingway family, or the dysfunctional author himself!

[gcruse]

F. Scott Fitzgerald died broke and out of print, but his Great Gatsby is a masterpiece.

And the other great chronicler of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis,  turned down a  Pulitzer prize for Arrowsmith because the whole idea was empty hubris, as far as he was concerned.  Hemingway, I always suspected, never got much past child alphabet blocks, and only blockheads liked his writing.  Dos Passos was Hemingway's superior in writing of the war.

[sine_nomine]

I should read Dos Passos. Thanks for the tip.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Dos Passos was Hemingway's superior in writing of the war.

Dos Passos is good, but he's not in Hemingway's league. I love all this Hemingway bashing---I feel like I'm back in college, defending Hemingway from the Alan Alda-ish, touchy-feely English professors who were always trying to claim, empirically, he wasn't a great writer after all.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I won't discuss the dysfunctional Hemingway family, or the dysfunctional author himself!

That's because you probably can't.

[InterceptPoint]

Well I'm glad to see that there are a few other who think Hemmingway was way overrated as a writer. His stuff is boooooring. No doubtaboutit.