Amazing trove of Hemingway papers found in Cuba

[Mika]

Amazing trove of Hemingway papers found in Cuba
http://www.examiner.com/x-2862-NY-Writing-Careers-Examiner~y2009m3d20-Amazing-trove-of-Hemingway-papers-found-in-Cuba

This will keep Hemingway scholars going for years. A joint Cuban-American project has unearthed, and is restoring, thousands of documents, letters and manuscripts in varying states of revision, all of them found in the basement of the farmhouse on the outskirts of Havana where Ernest Hemingway lived for 21 years,from World War II to Castro.

The Cuban government had beeh working to restore the house, but they did not have the resources to properly care for the papers, so they made the rare gesture of asking the United States for help, and the US government made the even rarer gesture -- this was the Bush administration! -- of agreeing to allow the New York-based Social Science Research Council to help with restoring, cataloging and scanning the documents.

Among the findings:

An alternate ending to For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Correspondence about the movie version of The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway was actively involved in the preparation of the screenplay for the Spencer Tracy film, and it was the only movie version of one of his novels that he ever liked.

Correspondence with a young Italian woman, Adriana Ivancich. It had always been supposed that Hemingway and Adriana were just friends, but these passionate letters -- she calls him "My crazy good sweet old lion" -- suggest that there may have been a lot more to the relationship.

Since Americans, even most Hemingway scholars, are still banned from traveling to Cuba, copies of the documents been sent to the Hemingway Archives at the Kennedy Museum in Boston, where they will eventually be made available to scholars and the public.

[madaboutharry]

1. There are some things that rise above

politics.

[Mika]

2. Really?

From the OP..

Since Americans, even most Hemingway scholars, are still banned from traveling to Cuba,...

That's our (US) government still banning American travel to Cuba.

[madaboutharry]

5. Well, I said

"some things". :)

[Botany]

3. And it was good.

The afternoon rains had left the air heavy with moisture but with the sweet smell of the jasmine
and the Cuban dark rum drinks flowing freely Skinner watched the green lizard run up the
courtyard wall and smiled. And it was good.

[Sancho]

4. Florida has passed it's own special laws prohibiting travel, reminds me of the old USSR

I think we all realize the historical screw ups with regard to Cuba. I suppose that any place which we can't bomb or invade is pretty much off limits.