Hemingway stories to come out in 2019
NEW YORK: Two Ernest Hemingway stories written in the mid-1950s and rarely seen since will be published next year.
The director of Hemingway’s literary estate, Michael Katakis, told the Associated Press recently that “The Monument” and “Indian Country and the White Army” will be included with a special reissue of the author’s classic ForWhomthe Bell Tolls.
The new edition also will include the story “A Room on the Garden Side,” which had been little-known beyond the scholarly community before TheStrand magazine published it over the summer.
For Whom the Bell Tolls: The HemingwayLibrary Edition is scheduled for the summer of 2019. The celebrated novel, set during the Spanish Civil War, was in the news earlier this year. It was a favorite of Sen. John McCain, who died in August, and the title of an HBO documentary about the Arizona Republican and Vietnam War veteran.
Ka t a k i s, whose Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts from a Life comes out this week, has overseen numerous posthumous projects. He has worked in coordination with the author’s son, Patrick Hemingway, on reissues of A Moveable Feast, Green Hills of Africa and other books, along with the controversial publication of TrueatFirst
Light, which Hemingway had left unfinished when he killed himself in 1961.
“I ’ve been talking to Patrick for a long time and we always ask the same question, ‘ Is there a reason for this to be released?’” Katakis said during a telephone interview. He declined to comment further on why they had decided to publish the 1950s stories, part of the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.
Hemingway wrote five pieces in 1956, reflecting upon his time as a correspondent and participant in World War 2. He would tell his publisher, Charles Scribner Jr., that the stories likely needed to come out after his death because they were “a little shocking” and dealt “with irregular troops and combat and with people who actually kill people.”
One of those works, “Black Ass at the Crossroads,” was released years ago. Another story, “The Bubble Reputation,” will remain unpublished for now.
Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts from a Life also draws from the collection at the JFK library. It features photographs, letters and extensive annotations. In a brief foreword, Patrick cites a memento not pictured in the book, or anywhere since he was a child: a trout fishing trunk used by the author on outings with his family.
- hanced the elegant ritual of my mom and dad as they waded side by side six feet off each bank downstream, casting toward each other their terminal cluster of three drift and straighten out before raising their rods and casting again,” Patrick wrote.
But, he added, “even the crack.” The marriage was over by 1940, the trunk was gone a few
years later.
In this November 1960 file photo, US novelist Ernest Hemingway attends a bullfight in Madrid, Spain. Two of his stories written in the mid-1950s and rarely seen since will be published next year.