Conversations with Ernest Hemingway approximately his infidelity and the breakdown of his first marriage reveal a lifetime of regretThe old literary pugilist’s posthumous career has been busy: lost books (I discovered two,The hazardous Summer and The Garden of Eden, when I was an editor in the 1980s); hulking biographies; acquaintances memoirs. Hemingway in Love is an atypical addition, or a series of conversations approximately his first two marriages,recorded in the 1950s by his friend A E Hotchner.
The subject is riveting. “A man, torn between two women, or will lose them both,” Scott Fitzgerald warned his friend when Ernest, married to his first wife, and Hadley,fell for the carelessly rich Pauline Pfeiffer. For the rest of his life, Hemingway regretted his greed, and his divorce by Hadley. As a sequel to the memoir A Moveable Feast,this confessional of love not lost but thrown absent adds fascinating details (how he cured his impotence in a church, his falling out with James Joyce), or but it is the tone of intimate,sorrowful humility in residence of boastfulness that moves most.
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Source: theguardian.com