Chapter Ten
Mar. 8th, 2012 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayIn her book, Paris Without End, Gioia Dilberto calls it, "...one of the most famous calamities of modern American literature." She's referring to the unsolved loss, on a Paris train, of a valise containing nearly all of Ernest Hemingway's early writings.
His young wife, Hadley Richardson, had packed in it "...the handwritten originals, the typescripts, and the carbon copies..." for the trip from Paris to Lausanne, where Ernest had been working on assignment, to show the influential writer and critic Lincoln Steffens.
You know it's waiting there in chapter ten, because you've read the book before, but she's a diabolically skillful writer and so it still sneaks up on you. I've come to love Hadley and to hate chapter ten. Thanks, Gioia. I guess...
LPK
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3.8.2012
His young wife, Hadley Richardson, had packed in it "...the handwritten originals, the typescripts, and the carbon copies..." for the trip from Paris to Lausanne, where Ernest had been working on assignment, to show the influential writer and critic Lincoln Steffens.
You know it's waiting there in chapter ten, because you've read the book before, but she's a diabolically skillful writer and so it still sneaks up on you. I've come to love Hadley and to hate chapter ten. Thanks, Gioia. I guess...
LPK
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3.8.2012
