SUMMARY: THIS OFFERING IS A HEMINGWAY LETTER ON ONION SKIN PAPER, FROM CUBA, DISCUSSING "THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA" PRICE: $8450.00

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Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961). TLS, signed in pencil "Papa", 1 full page, Nov 24, 1954, 4to, "Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula" letterhead, Cuba, onion skin paper, to Bob Manning of "Time" Magazine. The announcement having just been made that Hemingway had been awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, "Time" Magazine immediately assigned its top writer, Robert Manning, to do a cover-story interview of Hemingway. Manning visited the writer in Cuba, then corresponded with him on particular points to finish the article. In this letter, Hemingway responds to questions posed by Manning, including outstanding content regarding his "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952)

In small part, "...Am no good at stating metaphysics in conversation nor in a letter. But I thought Santiago was never alone because he had his friend and enemy the sea, and the things that lived in the sea, some of whom he loved and others he hated. The feeling he had about the fish is clearly indicated in the book I think. I believe he loved the sea. But she is a great whore you know, and I got that in the book too I hope. This, for your information, not to quote, is what I tried to do; make a real old man, a realboy, real sea, and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things. The hardest thing is to make something that is really true and sometimes truer than true...What you write about Old Man's comment on sin I believe. I would not change what I said in Death in the Afternoon...I am a more complex guy, perhaps than the man Santiago, and not such a good man. But I believe what he does and I also believe what I wrote in the first person in non-fiction in Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon..."

The letter continues with commentary about the controversial poet, Ezra Pound, and other subjects. VG. An excellent letter, dealing primarily with what was probably Hemingway's most famous book, "The Old Man and the Sea."

Transmission envelope of letter to Bob Manning (above) editor of "Time" Magazine

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