The American magazine The Strand Magazine will first publish the previously unreleased story of writer Ernest Hemingway, writes newsru.com. com.
As reported on the magazine's website, Hemingway's story, written by him in 1956, is called A Room on the Garden Side ("Room on the Garden Side"). For decades this work was known only to a narrow circle of members of the academic community, but not to the general public.
"In the 55th issue of our magazine, we are proud to present an unpublished story by Ernest Hemingway, entitled A Room on the Garden Side," reads the press release. - The work conveys a rich atmosphere and reflects many of Hemingway's favorite themes, such as war, courage, death and hope ".
"A Room on the Garden Side" - one of five stories, about the completion of work on them in August 1956, Hemingway wrote to his publisher. Previously, of these five stories, only one was published - "The Cross Roads". After the release of the 55th issue of The Strand Magazine, three more works remain unpublished: "Indian Country and the White Army" (also called "The Limited Objective", "The Limited Objective"), "The Monument" ("Monument") and " The Bubble Reputation ".
Strand Magazine so briefly announces the story of the story "A Room on the Garden Side": the story is in the first person - a man named Robert, or, as it is sometimes called, "Dad", and the action takes place during the Second World War in Paris Hotel Ritz. "Robert draws a bright sketch of soldiers, tired of the war, but hoping for the future," - says the magazine.
According to Kirk Kernatt, a member of the Hemingway Society, a character named Robert is a prototype of the writer himself, whose army colleagues also called him "dad," and the work itself contains everything for which readers like Hemingway's prose-stories about the war and its scars in human souls, talking about books with a glass of wine.
Breaking News from the @AP A Never Before Published Ernest Hemingway story will be published in the Strand @StrandMag https: // t. co / 9KW7mjcqpD # hemingway - The Strand Magazine (@StrandMag) August 2, 2018 The bar of the Ritz Hotel, where the story takes place, was very expensive for Hemingway. The words "Ritz" and Hemingway became almost synonymous after the release in 1926 of the novel "And the sun rises". This book glorified the young author, brought him worldwide fame and financial independence. "When I think about living in paradise, imagination always takes me to the Parisian Ritz," wrote Hemingway.
In 1944, during the landing of the Allies in Normandy, Hemingway, being a military correspondent, obtained permission to participate in military operations and headed a group of 200 French partisans. Entering Paris, he went to "free the cellar of the hotel Ritz". The Germans were no longer in the hotel, and Ham proceeded to a noisy celebration. The hotel manager made the impossible - during the occupation he kept in full harmony the famous wine cellars of the hotel.
"In the evening of this day, the foreign correspondents who accompanied Leclerc appeared in Paris. Photo-correspondent Robert Kapa found himself near the hotel "Ritz" and found out in the soldier guarding the entrance to the hotel, the driver Hemingway Pelka. He briefly reported to Robert: "Dad has captured a good hotel. A lot of things in the cellars. Go faster upstairs. ". And immediately in number 31 in the hotel "Ritz" flow of visitors.
There is a legend that the famous cocktail "Bloody Mary" (Bloody Mary), which became a symbol of the Parisian hotel "Ritz", was created in 1950 specifically for Hemingway by the local barman Bernard Azimont. Doctors forbade the writer to drink and his fourth wife - Mary Welch - very seriously followed the implementation of medical prescriptions. Then the bartender and invented for Hema a mixture saturated with alcohol, but leaving the breath clean. Allegedly Hemingway called this drink after his wife. True, this is nothing more than a legend supported by the Ritz.
In 1956, the owner of the hotel and friend of Hemingway, Charles Ritz found in the basement a suitcase, forgotten by the writer. In the suitcase was a notebook in which he kept notes about his life in Paris in the 1920s. Hemingway processed and copied the notes found - they served as the basis for the book of memories "A feast that is always with you," which was created after the writer's death by his fourth wife and widow Mary Welch Hemingway. The book was published in 1964, and the hotel Ritz took a strong place in the world literature.
Today's Ritz keeps the memory of the famous guest. The Hemingway Bar decorates the writer's photos, visitors are offered their favorite malt whiskey.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) - winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, author of many stories and novels. His work contributed significantly to the literature of the twentieth century. On July 2, 1961, at his home in Ketchum, Hemingway shot himself with a gun, without leaving a suicide note.