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REGARDING THE CELEBRATION OF THE 18TH ERNEST HEMNIGWAY INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
BY: JULIO A. LARRAMENDI
The eighteenth edition of the Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium on the work and life of the award-winning writer - whose death marks the 60th anniversary on July 2 - will be held online from June 24 to 26, organized by the museum that bears his name In the Habana.
Presentations by researchers from various countries, the presentation of the book Hemingway, Poet in Love, by Cuban Carlos Peón, virtual exhibitions and the exhibition of the documentary series by North American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, who accessed personal documents of the Nobel Prize for Literature donated by his widow to the John F. Kennedy Library, are some of the activities announced in the program.
Democratic congressman and member of the United States House of Representatives James McGovern, an active defender of relations between his country and the Island, and who in 2002 signed the agreement with the National Council of Cultural Heritage of Cuba for the restoration of the museum of Finca Vigía and the digitization of all the documentation stored there, will make an intervention at the opening of the event.
Also in 2021, the 95th anniversary of the publication of the first great work of the Bronze God of North American Literature is celebrated: The Sun also Rises, known in Spanish as Fiesta.
This beautiful novel, already in its succinct and forceful style, with short sentences and short and precise descriptions, shows a young but experienced journalist turned mature storyteller, ahead of other brilliant names of his generation.
The Parisian bohemia of the 1920s and the Spain of bullfighting, which for some North Americans had the appeal of the "exotic", make up the scenes of the play. With this novel and other later texts, Hemingway disclosed the Sanfermines and bullfights, the latter practices which many environmentalists and animal rights defenders demand that prohibition,
with success even in some cities of Spain itself.
Although this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the San Fermin festivities have been suspended, there are many, and in many parts of the world, who yearn for the joy and color of that popular tradition that dates back to the Ages. It mediates and owes part of its universal fame to Ernest Hemingway. May these words serve to pay tribute to a man who lived in Cuba for very significant years for his creative work, and who loved it in his own way, as well as Spain. Controversial as a person, imitated and reviled, the truth is that he reached high literary heights and even today manages to trap readers in his settings, connect them with his characters and delve, without superfluous sentimentality, into eternal themes.
The photos were taken in Pamplona and San Sebastián, following in his footsteps.
Presentations by researchers from various countries, the presentation of the book Hemingway, Poet in Love, by Cuban Carlos Peón, virtual exhibitions and the exhibition of the documentary series by North American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, who accessed personal documents of the Nobel Prize for Literature donated by his widow to the John F. Kennedy Library, are some of the activities announced in the program.
Democratic congressman and member of the United States House of Representatives James McGovern, an active defender of relations between his country and the Island, and who in 2002 signed the agreement with the National Council of Cultural Heritage of Cuba for the restoration of the museum of Finca Vigía and the digitization of all the documentation stored there, will make an intervention at the opening of the event.
Also in 2021, the 95th anniversary of the publication of the first great work of the Bronze God of North American Literature is celebrated: The Sun also Rises, known in Spanish as Fiesta.
This beautiful novel, already in its succinct and forceful style, with short sentences and short and precise descriptions, shows a young but experienced journalist turned mature storyteller, ahead of other brilliant names of his generation.
The Parisian bohemia of the 1920s and the Spain of bullfighting, which for some North Americans had the appeal of the "exotic", make up the scenes of the play. With this novel and other later texts, Hemingway disclosed the Sanfermines and bullfights, the latter practices which many environmentalists and animal rights defenders demand that prohibition,
with success even in some cities of Spain itself.
Although this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the San Fermin festivities have been suspended, there are many, and in many parts of the world, who yearn for the joy and color of that popular tradition that dates back to the Ages. It mediates and owes part of its universal fame to Ernest Hemingway. May these words serve to pay tribute to a man who lived in Cuba for very significant years for his creative work, and who loved it in his own way, as well as Spain. Controversial as a person, imitated and reviled, the truth is that he reached high literary heights and even today manages to trap readers in his settings, connect them with his characters and delve, without superfluous sentimentality, into eternal themes.
The photos were taken in Pamplona and San Sebastián, following in his footsteps.
