Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Cuba Opens Hemingway Archives


The Guardian notes that Cuba allowing access to all sorts of Hemingway documents.

From the story...

Cuba's has begun allowing electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway's Cuban hideaway Finca VigĂ­a, most of which have never been published. They include the beginning of a rejected epilogue to For Whom the Bell Tolls, and letters from a host of literary luminaries.

The 3,197 documents, which include a screenplay for The Old Man and the Sea and draft fragments of his novels and stories as well as coded details of his second world war exploits, were scanned as part of a 2002 agreement between the New York-based Social Science Research Council and Cuban national heritage authorities.

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