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La rivista letteraria statunitense The Strand Magazine ha appena pubblicato “A Room on the Garden Side”, un racconto inedito di Ernest Hemingway ambientato nella Parigi appena liberata dai nazisti, che il grande scrittore americano Premio Nobel per la Letteratura scrisse nel 1956. Ne parla un articolo pubblicato sul New York Times.

By 1956, Ernest Hemingway was in a free fall. Once transformative and captivating, his short, simple staccato style that remade American writing decades before had gone stale. It was now emulated by numerous authors. Lost in a literary rut, he became a caricature of his super-macho characters. He dodged sniper’s bullets in France, chased wild animals in Africa and tried to outrun fame. That summer, Hemingway found inspiration for his fiction in his adventures years earlier as a correspondent in World War II. He wrote five short stories about the war, he told his publisher, with a stipulation: “You can always publish them after I’m dead.” Six decades later and long after his suicide in 1961, only one of those stories had been published — until Thursday. The newly published work, “A Room on the Garden Side,” is a roughly 2,100-word story told in the first person by an American writer named Robert just after Allied soldiers liberated Paris from the Nazis in August 1944.

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