Friday, August 22, 2014

5823. SOCIAL SECURITY HEMINGWAY

 SOCIAL SECURITY HEMINGWAY
Also : Hemingway the Sun Also Rises. 'Robert Cohn 
was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.' 
That was not the original opening.  Referencing Brett Ashley 
instead, it opened, originally, 'This is a novel about a lady.'  
The original first chapter was discarded, along with deletions, 
earlier drafts and other titles.  The author's grandson, currently 
at Scribner's, is Sean Hemingway. Curator of Greek and Roman 
art at the Met. It has its roots in Ernest's experiences in summer 
1925, at the annual Pamplona running of the bulls. With his 1st wife 
Hadley Richardson.  In Paris, Gertrude Stein signed a photo on 
the title page 'you are all a lost generation.' Nobody would have 
heard of the lost generation if Hemingway had not immortalized   
it. The author's only surviving son is Patrick.  He lives in
Montana, and is 86 years old. 

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