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¿Dónde está el Hemingway?*
Review of the Skyhorse hardcover edition (2018)

I rather enjoyed writer/photographer Robert Wheeler's previous Hemingway related book Hemingway's Paris: A Writer's City in Words and Images (2015). Although it was also a contemporary production, the use of black & white photography gave it more of a historical aura. Most of its scenes were without people, which could give the illusion that actual period photographs were being used. Its running text also had more of an authentic Hemingway feel to it, drawing on locations and people all the way from The Sun Also Rises (1926) through to A Moveable Feast (1964).

This more recent production is lacking in most of those aspects. The photographs are in colour and very few of them are specifically Hemingway related. The text is more of an imagined romantic fantasy which muses about what Hemingway might have felt or thought about certain views of the ocean, the city or various objects.

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A view of 'Pilar', Hemingway's beloved fishing boat, now preserved in Cuba. Image sourced from Pinterest

The most shocking aspect is how few actual Hemingway related photographs are in the book. There is an opening 1 photo homage to Hemingway's fishing boat first mate Gregorio Fuentes and a lovely tribute written by his grand-daughter América Fuentes. There are only 2 photographs of the "Pilar" fishing boat itself, a view of a fishing chair and a head-on-view of its prow. There is a photograph of a photograph of Hemingway himself. There is a photograph of a painting of 4th wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway. There are only 4 interior room photographs and 2 of tabletop knickknacks & souvenirs from the Finca Vigia (Spanish: Lookout Farm), the Hemingway residence outside of Havana. And that's it! Out of 112 photographs in total.

The rest are random ocean and street views, non-Hemingway related boats and buildings, artwork and murals, flowers and posters, a bottle of rum and of a Papa Doble (Hemingway's version of a daiquiri cocktail, without sugar and double the rum). OK, maybe you can say that last one is Hemingway related, but a photograph of a cocktail glass is not exactly something very evocative.

I may have missed out on something as almost none of the photographs are actually identified as to location. The reader's guesswork and imagination is required to make something out of it. Anyway, this was a disappointment, with no-related photographs of 3rd wife Martha Gellhorn, who found the Finca Vigia for Hemingway and made its first renovations, no views of the Hotel Ambos Mundos where Hemingway first lived in Cuba, no mention of the Hooligan Navy (Hemingway's anti-Nazi submarine patrols in Cuban waters during WW2) or of the Crook Factory (Hemingway's perhaps somewhat imagined network of anti-Nazi spies in Cuba, also during WW2), no views of his favourite El Floridita Bar and the Hemingway statue enshrined there, no exterior views of the Finca Vigia main building & its guest house & its tower, no overall full length views of the 'Pilar' boat, etc.

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* Spanish for "Where is the Hemingway?"
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alanteder | Mar 15, 2022 |
How Paris affected Hemingway during the time he lived there. Not much new here, but the photographs that accompany the text are stunning
 
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etxgardener | otra reseña | May 4, 2021 |
This is a lovely book of contemporary black & white photographs of various Hemingway-related sites in Paris. Although the photography is present-day, views of people and modern day buildings are kept to a minimum, which definitely gives you the illusion of seeing these locales as if you were viewing them in the 1920's when Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley came to Paris and the writer began his career. Hemingway's Paris memoir "A Moveable Feast" is the main reference point of his works to this travel/photography companion. It was actually somewhat surprising how many of the apartments, hotels, cafes and bar/restaurants from those days are still around or even in business! Shakespeare and Co. is another touchstone here, but as the author admits the current bookstore is in a new locale, different from that of Sylvia Beach's that Hemingway was familiar with. This is highly recommended for Hemingway and Moveable Feast fans!
It could, however, have done with a bit more copy/editing, especially for something luxury priced as it is (it retails for $34.99 here in Canada). Calling the memoir "A Moveable Feast" a novel (page 26), book seller and publisher Sylvia Beach a fellow writer (page 32) and having the blurb on page 108 refer to a non-existent photo of Marcel Proust's apartment on page 109 make it seem like something was rushed in the final production here. So a star/point off for that.
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alanteder | otra reseña | Apr 26, 2015 |
Intriguing Book

Mountains and Minds is an intriguing book that will make readers think about and examine the meaning and purpose of their own life. Mixing philosophy with psychology, the author has given the world a new way to think.

Highly Recommended
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