HEMINGWAY (Ernest). Lettre signée avec corrections... - Lot 111 - Osenat

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HEMINGWAY (Ernest). Lettre signée avec corrections... - Lot 111 - Osenat
HEMINGWAY (Ernest). Lettre signée avec corrections autographes et longue apostille autographe à Abner Green. Keywest, 24 décembre 1935. 1 p. 1/4 dactylographiée et 3/4 p. autographes au crayon, papier fragile avec bords un peu effrangés , enveloppe conservée. LETTRE SARCASTIQUE SUR LES MILIEUX LITTÉRAIRES AMÉRICAINS ET LA QUESTION DE L’ENGAGEMENT CONTRE LE FASCISME. « ... One thing you don’t need to worry about is the way the boys think I’m lousy. If you are ever popular you will be very unpopular sooner or later. Only one thing will avoid that and that is devoting your life to being popular or being fashionable and that means that you won’t do anything worth a damn and will stink as soon as your are dead... Hell I was fashionable as you want but when it was going on I stayed away from the country and never saw anybody that read my stuff. They don’t really care about writing and they know nothing about it. Right now I could write Hamlet the Marxian, slanted critics would say it was lousy. But if I came out as a communist I could write straight shit slanted and they would say it was marvellous and world moving epochistic... It funny enough how literary people hate fishing and shooting. They also hate kidding. If you did, that would mean loss of their dignity... If you go to the meetings and put your name on the letterheads you are fashionable and if you do your goddamnest against war and fascism knowing what both of them are and having seen plenty of both and how to hit them where they hurt and keep on trying to do it, why, you are a shit who writes rubbish for the Men’s Clothing Trade Journal... »
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