HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. TYPED LETTER SIGNED TWICE ("ERNEST" AND "E. HEMINGWAY") TO NATHAN WILLIAM DAVIS N.D. [CA. 17 JUNE 1942] 12 PAGE, 4TO, ON FINCA VIGIA STATIONERY, WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE BEARING CUBAN CENSORSHIP STAMP . SIGNED IN PENCIL.
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. TYPED LETTER SIGNED TWICE ("ERNEST" AND "E. HEMINGWAY") TO NATHAN WILLIAM DAVIS N.D. [CA. 17 JUNE 1942] 12 PAGE, 4TO, ON FINCA VIGIA STATIONERY, WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE BEARING CUBAN CENSORSHIP STAMP . SIGNED IN PENCIL. "DON'T REPEAT THESE REMARKS AS I AM NOT ANTI-SEMITIC; ONLY ANTI-BLOCK" A fiery, frustrated Hemingway vents his anger against a publisher--Block--whose frustrated plans to publish a Spanish translation of The Sun Also Rises in Mexico provoked a "series of insulting letters" to Hemingway. Block claimed "I sold him something that I did not own etc. His rotten Jew sould [ sic ] had it twisted finally into a plot I had to gyp him...The bastard insisted (under Mexican law) he was going to publish Sun Also whether I liked it or not." Hemingway tells Davis he had returned Block's advance and wanted Davis (who lived in Mexico City) to send a telegram to Block ending their relations. "I expect the next thing will be for Block to sue me claiming I have stolen his foreskin. Don't repeat these remarks as I am not anti-semitic; only anti-block." He "would give 500 U.S. currency to be able to have five minutes alone with him in a locked room. Well things will catch up with him finally and if things don't sooner or later I will. Some place where there aint too much law." The anti-Semitic remarks that pepper Hemingway's letters have long been a source of controversy. He occasionally signed letters "Hemingstein" because, as biographer Kenneth Lynn wrote, "he was enough of an anti-Semite to find Jewish names funny just because they were Jewish." He would often try to soften or excuse his prejudice--as he does here--as crude humor or mere verbal excess. But clearly he had a problem: whenever an adversary happened to be Jewish, Hemingway never failed to emphasize it. After World War II he became more self-conscious about such language. He told Robert Frost, for example, that he "detested" Ezra Pound's anti-Semitism (yet opposed Pound's prosecution for treason). Ironically, the recipient of this letter was himself Jewish. NOT PUBLISHED.
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. TYPED LETTER SIGNED TWICE ("ERNEST" AND "E. HEMINGWAY") TO NATHAN WILLIAM DAVIS N.D. [CA. 17 JUNE 1942] 12 PAGE, 4TO, ON FINCA VIGIA STATIONERY, WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE BEARING CUBAN CENSORSHIP STAMP . SIGNED IN PENCIL.
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. TYPED LETTER SIGNED TWICE ("ERNEST" AND "E. HEMINGWAY") TO NATHAN WILLIAM DAVIS N.D. [CA. 17 JUNE 1942] 12 PAGE, 4TO, ON FINCA VIGIA STATIONERY, WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE BEARING CUBAN CENSORSHIP STAMP . SIGNED IN PENCIL. "DON'T REPEAT THESE REMARKS AS I AM NOT ANTI-SEMITIC; ONLY ANTI-BLOCK" A fiery, frustrated Hemingway vents his anger against a publisher--Block--whose frustrated plans to publish a Spanish translation of The Sun Also Rises in Mexico provoked a "series of insulting letters" to Hemingway. Block claimed "I sold him something that I did not own etc. His rotten Jew sould [ sic ] had it twisted finally into a plot I had to gyp him...The bastard insisted (under Mexican law) he was going to publish Sun Also whether I liked it or not." Hemingway tells Davis he had returned Block's advance and wanted Davis (who lived in Mexico City) to send a telegram to Block ending their relations. "I expect the next thing will be for Block to sue me claiming I have stolen his foreskin. Don't repeat these remarks as I am not anti-semitic; only anti-block." He "would give 500 U.S. currency to be able to have five minutes alone with him in a locked room. Well things will catch up with him finally and if things don't sooner or later I will. Some place where there aint too much law." The anti-Semitic remarks that pepper Hemingway's letters have long been a source of controversy. He occasionally signed letters "Hemingstein" because, as biographer Kenneth Lynn wrote, "he was enough of an anti-Semite to find Jewish names funny just because they were Jewish." He would often try to soften or excuse his prejudice--as he does here--as crude humor or mere verbal excess. But clearly he had a problem: whenever an adversary happened to be Jewish, Hemingway never failed to emphasize it. After World War II he became more self-conscious about such language. He told Robert Frost, for example, that he "detested" Ezra Pound's anti-Semitism (yet opposed Pound's prosecution for treason). Ironically, the recipient of this letter was himself Jewish. NOT PUBLISHED.
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