Between Two Wars: First-Ever Exhibition Of The Life And Writings of Ernest Hemingway

Artfixdaily.com offers a piece on the exhibition on Ernest Hemingway at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.

In July 1918, Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was serving as a volunteer with the Red Cross on the Italian Front during World War I when he was seriously wounded by mortar fire. He was just eighteen.

Later he would write, “When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you ... Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen.”

Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars is the first museum exhibition devoted to one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. His direct, spare style influenced successive generations of authors around the world. And tens of millions would read his books and never forget the stories and characters in such masterpieces as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.

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http://www.artfixdaily.com/calendar/details/1784-first-ever-exhibition-of-the-life-and-writings-of-ernest-hemingwa

Hemingway's Tropical Retreats Reflect His Adventures

Patricia Sheridan at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offers a piece on Ernest Hemingway's tropical homes in Key West, Florida and Cuba.

KEY WEST, Fla. / HAVANA, Cuba — Ernest Hemingway spent a lifetime cultivating a masculine image and personas. War correspondent, cigar lover, big game hunter, deep sea fisherman, boxer, liberal with liquor, minimalist with words -- all done to maximum effect. Predictably, evidence of his adventures fills the writer’s two tropical homes in Key West and Havana. Hunting and fishing trophies stare down from the walls in nearly every room, as well as photos of his exploits and famous friends. He was a legend in his own time, and movie posters from his books such as “A Farewell to Arms” and “For Whom The Bell Tolls” that were made into films adorn the walls. But it’s the spirit of the other kind of trophy he collected, his wives, that helps to distinguish his island retreats.

You can read the rest of the piece and view photos of the Hemingway homes via the below link:

http://www.post-gazette.com/life/travel/2014/06/16/Hemingway-s-Tropical-Retreats/stories/201406160002

Note: I've visited the Hemingway home in Key West and I hope to visit Hemingway's Cuban home once the Castro brothers are dead and the Cuban people are free of communism.

Hemingway Transformed, 95 Years Later: Hemingway Not Only A Great Writer, But A Man Of Great Faith

 

Mary Claire Kendall at Forbes.com offers a piece on the late great writer Ernest Hemingway's faith.

In the summer of 1918, as World War I was entering its final bloody stages, Ernest Hemingway, like most American youth, answered the call to serve in this “war to end all wars.” Then, as now, the same sectarian and religious rivalries convulsed the world.

Within weeks, Hemingway was seriously wounded and nearly died. The experience would transform him into not only a great writer but a man of great faith. The former we know all too well—embodied in such epic works as A Farewell to Arms, made into an Oscar-winning film starring Gary Cooper, who would become Hemingway’s good friend. The latter we know little of. 

That the underlying theme of his writing—and his life—is “sanctity,” according to Hemingway scholar H.R. Stoneback, has everything to do with what happened in the heat of battle in Fossalta, Italy along the Piave River, and its immediate aftermath, 95 years ago today.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/maryclairekendall/2013/07/08/hemingway-transformed-95-years-later/

A Farewell To Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

Martin Rubin at the Washington Times offers a good review of the new edition of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel, A Farewell to Arms.

Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” stands, more than 80 years after its first appearance, as a towering ornament of American literature. Seeing this new edition of the great classic novel, with the very same cover that adorned it back in 1929, is somehow moving; how much more so it must be for its publisher then and now.

 

“A Farewell to Arms” is one of those texts that transcends its impetus. Yes, it is undeniably a powerful denunciation and expose of the horrors of war, specifically World War I, as is clear from Hemingway’s passionate introduction to a new edition reprinted in this volume. Written shortly after another equally but differently terrible global conflict, it seethes with his hatred of war. But it radiates something else as well, a different kind of passion — for creativity, for writing, for spinning the gold of literature out of his experience.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/3/book-review-a-farewell-to-arms-the-hemingway-libra/

To Use And Use Not: New Edition Of Hemingway's 'A Farewell To Arms' To Be Published With Alternate Endings And Early Drafts

Julie Bosman at the New York Times reports on a new editon of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms.

In an interview in The Paris Review in 1958 Ernest Hemingway made an admission that has inspired frustrated novelists ever since: The final words of “A Farewell to Arms,” his wartime masterpiece, were rewritten “39 times before I was satisfied.”     

                     

Ernest Hemingway's first-page draft for “A Farewell to Arms.”

                         

Those endings have become part of literary lore, but they have never been published together in their entirety, according to his longtime publisher, Scribner. 

      

A new edition of “A Farewell to Arms,” which was originally published in 1929, will be released next week, including all the alternate endings, along with early drafts of other passages in the book.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/books/a-farewell-to-arms-with-hemingways-alternate-endings.html?_r=1 

Hemingway's Life, Not Suicide, Celebrated

UPI.com reports that various foundations are celebrating Ernest Hemingway's life and literary work this week, rather than the 50th anniversary of his suicide.

The late, great novelist shot himself to death on July 2, 1961.

Winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, "Papa Hemingway" is 34th on the U.N. list of the world's 50 most translated authors. Nearly two dozen of his works were made into movies, including "The Old Man and the Sea," "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Killers." 

Hemingway's larger-than-life adventures play into his enduring appeal, scholars say. He was on the front lines in five wars, hunted in Africa, covered bullfights in Spain, survived two plane crashes and four car wrecks, and had four wives.

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http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2011/05/31/Hemingways-life-not-suicide-celebrated/UPI-65641306862242/

A Farewell To Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming Cabin?

Carolyn Kellogg at The Los Angeles Times reports that the Wyoming ranch where Ernest Hemingway finished his novel A Farewell to Arms has been sold.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/04/a-farewell-to-ernest-hemingways-wyoming-cabin.html