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I want to tell you about my new book which recovers and quotes from the mysterious and unavailable files of Hemingway’s Cuban correspondence with Malcolm Cowley and Bernard Berenson. Most of Cowley’s extensive files were sold at auction and have now “disappeared” and Berenson’s files are only available in his charming but remote villa in i Tatti, Italy. The revealing Cuban interview with Dr Herrera has only been published in Russia.
THAT OTHER HEMINGWAY (Nov., 2009) provides a handbook to accompany my original work for Hemingway’s Library (1981) as it demonstrates Hemingway’s dependence on his library as a basis for what he called “invention” in the manner of Henry James, Leo Tolstoy and Paul Cezanne. Along with the intimate thoughts of Dr Herrera these letters reveal his desperate loneliness in Cuba and allow him an opportunity to explain and define his own theory of fiction.
Little honest insight into Hemingway’s long stay in Cuba has been critically considered and it may be that in a historical sense his residence and production there may be as important as his Latin wanderings in Europe.
If you have checked out Hemingway’s Library (1981)on line you will have noted how Mary Hemingway arranged with Dr Castro for a friend of mine and I to be the first academics to examine the library in Finca Vigia. My experience in teaching Hemingway along with James and Faulkner is longstanding. I was a founding member of the Hemingway Society and the Chairman of the First International Hemingway Conference in Madrid. Which included a passionate tour of Pamplona.
That Other Hemingway is most easily obtained at Amazon.ca but if you are persistent Amazon.com can also find the book. Barnes and Noble lists it.
I ask you to share my insights into these neglected files and I welcome any corrections or additions to the files.
All best wishes for the New Year.
Jim brasch
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