Thursday, February 12, 2009

Hemingway letters shed new light
as reported on Yahoo News

HAVANA (AFP) – Thousands of letters by American author Ernest Hemingway containing intimate details of his life are shedding new light on the writer, Cuban researchers said in a media report Wednesday.
"There are lots of intimacies in these letters," researcher Rosalba Diaz told the daily Juventud Rebelde, saying she had been impressed by how many letters had been found which "break with his image of being a wild man."
Diaz, who is digitalizing more than 3,000 pages of unpublished correspondence, is the curator at Hemingway's former home Finca Vigia, which Havana has turned into a museum.
"He tried to isolate himself in Cuba, but failed," she said, adding she had got "goose bumps" when the letters were discovered.
Read the full piece here.
Thanks to London-based NZ novelist Chad Taylor for bringing this story to my attention.
Can't wait to read those letters.

2 comments:

T-SQUAT said...

great news!

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Beattie's Book Blog said...

I agree James.