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Grandson completes Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Moveable Feast’
This is the most memorable quote from Ernest Hemingway's “A Moveable Feast,” whose “restored” edition has just recently hit bookstores in the US.
The book, in which Hemingway recounts the French capital in the 1920s through his own experience there as a struggling young writer, was first published posthumously by Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, some three years after the writer's suicide in July 1961. The restored edition by Sean Hemingway, the author's 42-year-old grandson, includes previously unseen notes by Hemingway.
Efforts to complete “A Moveable Feast” stretch back some 30 years, when the missing parts of the book surfaced after the writer's archives were made available to researchers in 1979. The book's title was the idea of Mary Hemingway, but researchers now know that Hemingway actually intended those excluded notes for the book as well, and had personally started working on his manuscripts to compile them into a book before his death. Mary Hemingway's extensive editing on Hemingway's notes has been questioned for their validity by literary scholars.
Sean Hemingway says he prepared this latest version in accordance with his grandfather's final draft of the book. The finale of the book did not exist in Hemingway's final draft, but Sean Hemingway thinks he has managed to complete the missing parts that were excluded in the first edition. Mary Hemingway is known to have changed several of the book's sections, ignoring the author's original notes.
The foreword for the restored edition was written by the writer's son, Patrick Hemingway. The book, made up of 17 sections, also includes copies of Hemingway's original drafts. So it is possible to say that this restored edition of the book is the one that is most similar to the version Hemingway pictured, and that the real “A Moveable Feast” has just been published.
“A Moveable Feast's” restored edition also includes previously unseen memoirs and incomplete notes about Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, and writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, who became friends during their years as part of the American expatriate community in Paris.
A failed KGB agent?
2009 can be deemed a highly fruitful year for fans of Hemingway with a movie about the legendary author written and directed by Andy Garcia; his archives in his house in Cuba being digitized and made available online; and finally the restored edition of “A Moveable Feast” being published. However, one story that is more interesting than all of the above surfaced earlier this month when the Nobel prize-winning author was revealed as a failed KGB spy in the book “Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America,” published by Yale University Press. Co-written by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev and based on notes that Vassiliev, a former KGB officer, made when he was given access in the '90s to Stalin-era intelligence archives in Moscow, the book reveals that Hemingway was on the KGB's list of its agents in America in the 1940s. So, did Hemingway, who is said to have used the cover name “Argo,” really serve as a spy like George Orwell, Graham Greene or Somerset Maugham did? This story is likely to ignite more debate and Hemingway's admirers are not likely to have any shortage of new material about the author soon.
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