European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hemingway was a Man of action As Welt As a Man of letters. This photo with Spanish bullfighter Juan de la Palma was taken a year before the author s death. A Hemingway in 1937 during the Spanish civil War. Adventurer and Burly brooding bearded larger than life. Man who. Laughed with Marlene Dietrich and hunted with Gary Cooper and survived five wars four Auto accidents two plane crashes and one thirst longer than most actuaries might expect a this extraordinary boy Man leaves a Wake unique among literary heroes. In just the last 10 years we Are told by Charles m. Oliver professor of English at Ohio Northern University and editor of the Hemingway review there have been. More than 70 books 1,200 articles and 40 scholarly. Conferences about Hemingway. A a a a in just the past year two novels have sprung from the fact that the first mrs. Hemingway lost a suitcase full of his manuscripts in a Paris Railroad station 68 years ago. A third new novel wonders what might have happened i Hemingway and Fidel Castro had become buddies. The Range of other books articles and papers is numbing. Hemingway rediscovered Hemingway and. Ava Gardner and Virginia Woolf and Turgenev alcohol and the writer Hemingway s Venice also his Paris Spain and Istanbul Hemingway s Trail to the British anti Petronic dialogue Heming Vay s quarrel with androgyny debunking Hemingway s Marlin theories. The thirsty Muse Hemingway s rites of manhood. Also a full blown Book called the Best of bad Hemingway a collection which rises like a sluggish souffle from the fact that parodying Hemingway  a Saloon if not a cottage Industry. Thus inexorably we got Quot do you remember George Tell Quot Quot yes. He was a swell Bowler. For whom does Tell Bow now Quot. A a. A a a the real Hemingway wrote nine novels 80 Short stories. And one play. He became a giant in american literature. An original of such enviable simplicity it was said that half of our writers tried to imitate him and the other halt tried not to. A a i Hen in a rising wave of physical p, terror he. Told him Solt he was done As a writer and killed himself on the morning of july 2, 1061. Now almost 30 years later in1 Sells More books than Ever. A Charles Scribner s sons his publisher reports it Sells More than a million copies of his work a year mostly in paperback in English and Many thousands More in some 100 foreign languages around the world. I be is  the v soviet Union Japan and  be outsells ail other writers in the Scribner stable Iru hiding Bis sometime Friend of Scott fit Gerald. Fitzgerald leads in the Sale of a single Bonk the great gatsby. Hemingway is ahead  sales led by the old Man and the sea a a a a v.  still Numero Gnu which meant a Lirt to him Quot says Charles Scribner if. Quot and he dearly did t want to be second to  like evidence since his death suggests that. Ernest Hemingway could t tolerate being  anybody. The fiction writer made a religion out of Grace under pressure but the Man under pressure of a Competition he imagined could be singularly graceless about other writers. A a a a a. A. A r Quot he might have seemed the big confident White Hunter when he returned to the 21 club in new York but at the  fell like a Man alone Quot driven far out past Yvere he can go out to where no one can help him Quot so he lashed out at others. F3e splattered fit Gerald mercilessly even questioning his manhood. He Felt a rivalry with William Faulkner and sought to dismiss him Quot poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come in an big words he. Thinks 1 Don t know the ten a a Dollar words i know them All right. But there Are other older and simpler and better words and those Are the ones i Roe. Did you read his last Book it s All sauce writing now but it was Good  january 31, 799 7 stripes Magazine 13